[U-Boot] coreboot and u-boot integration x86: "No tick base available"

[Martin Ertsås]

On 06/01/14 18:42, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On 30 May 2014 04:33, Martin Ertsås <martiert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to use u-boot as a payload to coreboot. Problem is that when
>> coreboot starts u-boot, it fails with panic("No tick base available");
>>
>> When looking at the backtrace this gives a recursive error, as panic
>> calls __udelay and get_ticks, which again panics. I heard this was
>> because u-boot overwrote the memory location of coreboot, and that there
>> have been some patches going around that fixes this issue, but have not
>> made it upstream. As far as I can tell, chromebook v2 uses these patches
>> to make their stuff boot. Can anyone point me in the right direction for
>> those patches? I have tried finding them myself, but can't seem to find
>> them.
>>
> It probably means that Coreboot is not passing its timing data to
> U-Boot. You need to enable a timestamp option in Coreboot to do this.
>
> You could patch it to remove this panic and just use 0 in this case.
>
> Regards,
> Simon

Thanks. I'll look into the timestamp option. So using 0 as the tick
value should work?

- Martin