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- @import url('../css/main.css');
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- <title>ThinkPad R500</title>
-</head>
-
-<body>
-
- <div class="section">
- <h1 id="pagetop">ThinkPad R500</h1>
-
- <p>
- It is believed that all or most R500 laptops are compatible.
- See notes about <a href="../install/r500_external.html#cpu_compatibility">CPU compatibility</a> for
- potential incompatibilities.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- There are two possible flash chip sizes for the R500: 4MiB (32Mbit) or 8MiB (64Mbit).
- This can be identified by the type of flash chip below the palmrest: 4MiB is SOIC-8, 8MiB
- is SOIC-16.
- <b>
- NOTE: this paragraph is being treated with contempt. When an R500 was disassembled, it didn't look
- like there was an extra place for SOIC-16. It's highly likely that these laptops only have SOIC-8 (4MiB)
- flash chips. For now, libreboot will distribute 8MiB images just in case. If it is found later on
- that no 8MiB (SOIC-16) chips exist on the R500, then libreboot will cease to distribute 8MiB ROM images
- for this laptop. It is only said that the R500 has 4MiB or 8MiB, for now, since this is the case
- on other GM45 thinkpads that are supported in libreboot.
- </b>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <b>The R400 laptops come with the ME (and sometimes AMT in addition) before flashing libreboot. Libreboot disables and removes it
- by using a modified descriptor: see <a href="gm45_remove_me.html">gm45_remove_me.html</a></b> (contains notes, plus
- instructions)
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Flashing instructions can be found at <a href="../install/index.html#flashrom">../install/index.html#flashrom</a>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <b>
- NOTE: This board is unsupported in libreboot 20150518. To use it in libreboot, for now,
- you must build for it from source using the libreboot git repository.
- </b>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <a href="index.html">Back to previous index</a>.
- </p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <h2 id="compatibility_noblobs">Compatibility (without blobs)</h2>
-
- <div class="subsection">
- <h3 id="hwvirt">Hardware virtualization (vt-x)</h3>
- <p>
- The R400, when run without CPU microcode updates in coreboot, currently kernel panics
- if running QEMU with vt-x enabled on 2 cores for the guest. With a single core enabled
- for the guest, the guest panics (but the host is fine). Working around this in QEMU
- might be possible; if not, software virtualization should work fine (it's just slower).
- </p>
- <p>
- On GM45 hardware (with libreboot), make sure that the <i>kvm</i> and <i>kvm_intel</i> kernel modules
- are not loaded, when using QEMU.
- </p>
- <p>
- The following errata datasheet from Intel might help with investigation:
- <a href="http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/specupdt/320121.pdf">http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/specupdt/320121.pdf</a>
- </p>
- </div>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <h1 id="lcd_compatibility">LCD compatibly</h1>
- <p>
- Not all LCD panels are known to be compatible yet. See <a href="gm45_lcd.html">gm45_lcd.html</a>.
- </p>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <p>
- The R500 is almost identical to the X200, code-wise, but there are some hardware differences. See <a href="x200.html">x200.html</a>.
- </p>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <h2 id="regdumps">Hardware register dumps</h2>
-
- <p>
- The coreboot wiki <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Motherboard_Porting_Guide">shows</a>
- how to collect various logs useful in porting to new
- boards. Following are outputs from the R500:
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- Lenovo BIOS 3.13 (EC firmware 1.06):
- <ul>
- <li><a href="hwdumps/r500/">hwdumps/r500/</a></li>
- </ul>
- </ul>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <h1 id="issues">Issues</h1>
- <h2>
- False report of overheating, automatic shut down
- </h2>
- <p>
- When attempting to boot Trisquel 7 live USB (GNOME), the following error appears and then
- the system abruptly shuts down:
- <b>thermal thermal_zone1: critical temperature reached(120 C),shutting down</b>.
- </p>
- <p>
- This is false. When booting with <b>acpi=off</b>, xsensors shows no overheating during a stress test.
- The system does not feel hot, nor does anything smell like it's burning.
- </p>
- <p>
- This is most likely caused by an ACPI bug in coreboot, which will have to be investigated. Grep for those things,
- comparing factory/libreboot (iasl -d or acpidump):
- </p>
-<pre>
- Return (C2K(\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC.TMP0))
-TMP0, 8, /* Thermal Zone 0 temperature */
-</pre>
- <h2>Cardbus slot didn't work when tested</h2>
- <p>
- Investigate.
- </p>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <h1>Descriptor differences</h1>
-
- <p>
- The <i>ich9gen</i> and <i>ich9deblob</i> utilities were modified,
- to reflect these differences.
- </p>
-
- <h2>Component 1 Density</h2>
-
-<pre>
-- descriptorStruct.componentSection.flcomp.component1Density = 0x4;
-+ descriptorStruct.componentSection.flcomp.component1Density = 0x3;
-</pre>
-
- <p>
- Read page 848 in the ICH9 datasheet, linked to from <a href="gm45_remove_me.html#flash_descriptor_region">gm45_remove_me.html#flash_descriptor_region</a>.
- This doesn't break anything, but in the process of debugging descriptor differences on the R500, it was found that this
- config option isn't being modified in libreboot, for different size ROM images. 4MiB ROM images still contain 0x4 for component1Density.
- Per datasheets, 0x4 (100) is 8MiB, and 0x3 (011) is 4MiB. <b>This should be fixed!</b>
- </p>
- <p>
- It was 0x3 for this test, because the R500 that was used to create this report
- had a 4MiB SOIC-8 flash chip.
- </p>
-
- <h2>flReg1.LIMIT</h2>
-
-<pre>
-- /* descriptorStruct.regionSection.flReg1.LIMIT = 0x07ff; */
-+ /* descriptorStruct.regionSection.flReg1.LIMIT = 0x03ff; */
-</pre>
-
- <p>
- Ignore this. This is not used at all, and is instead automatically set, depending on
- the targetted ROM image size, both in ich9gen and ich9deblob. 0x7ff means 8MiB, and 0x3ff means
- 4MiB. flReg1 is for the BIOS region. Simply speaking, this is defining the final 4KiB section
- of the ROM image, where the BIOS region ends.
- </p>
- <p>
- It was 0x3ff for this test, because the R500 that was used to create this report
- had a 4MiB SOIC-8 flash chip.
- </p>
-
- <h2>Onboard gigabit ethernet NIC is disabled</h2>
-
-<pre>
-- descriptorStruct.ichStraps.ichStrap0.integratedGbe = 0x1;
-- descriptorStruct.ichStraps.ichStrap0.lanPhy = 0x1;
-+ descriptorStruct.ichStraps.ichStrap0.integratedGbe = 0x0;
-+ descriptorStruct.ichStraps.ichStrap0.lanPhy = 0x0;
-</pre>
-
- <p>
- Most GM45 laptops (e.g. X200, T400, T500, R400) have the <b>Intel 82567LM</b>
- integrated gigabit NIC.
- </p>
- <p>
- On the R500, a <b>Broadcom BCM5787M</b> NIC is present. To make this work,
- the change above must be made for the R500 descriptor.
- </p>
-
- <h1 id="nogbe">No Gbe region!</h1>
-
- <p>
- Not shown in the diffs above:
- </p>
-
-<pre>
-Original: Descriptor start block: 00000000 ; Descriptor end block: 00000000
-Original: BIOS start block: 00200000 ; BIOS end block: 003ff000
-Original: ME start block: 00001000 ; ME end block: 001f7000
-Original: GBe start block: 00fff000 ; GBe end block: 00000000
-Original: Platform start block: 001f8000 ; Platform end block: 001ff000
-</pre>
-
- <p>
- As explained above, this laptop uses a Broadcom NIC, which means that
- the Gbe region does not and <i>should not</i> exist, since this is for the
- Intel NIC only.
- </p>
- <p>
- In the output above, Gbe starts at fff and ends at 000. Base 1FFF or FFF, and limit 0,
- means that the region is disabled.
- </p>
- <p>
- In the output above, the ME region is 4KiB larger than on other GM45 systems that have
- a Gbe region. This accounts for the lack of a Gbe region.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- As part of this effort, ich9gen/ich9deblob/demefactory will all be
- modified to account for the differences above.
- </p>
-
- </div>
-
- <div class="section">
-
- <p>
- Copyright &copy; 2015 Francis Rowe &lt;info@gluglug.org.uk&gt;<br/>
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