[MinnowBoard] Coreboot Payload not loaded

[Bill Traynor]

Never mind, I hadn't accommodated for the flash descriptor.  All is working now.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Bill Traynor <btraynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to get Coreboot + SeaBIOS working on my MMAX(A2) but I'm stuck
> at the error:
>
> Payload being loaded below 1MiB without region being marked as RAM usable.
> Bounce Buffer at 00000000, 437408 bytes
> Could not find a bounce buffer...
> Payload not loaded.
>
> This message: https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-September/078634.html
> indicates that "This happens if you make a ROM image without the IFD
> (Intel Flash Desciptor)...Ref: review.coreboot.org/#/c/5792/  We need
> to preserve the existing Intel Flash Descriptor & TXE binary."
>
> The wiki has a workaround for this here:
> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Coreboot#Building_without_TXE.2FSPI_descriptor
> so I did:
>
> echo 00500000:007fffff coreboot > regions.txt
>
> But when I flash the board with:
>
> sudo flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type=2232h,port=A,divisor=4 -l regions.txt
> -w build/coreboot.rom and boot.
>
> It hangs at this "Payload not loaded" message.
>
> Is the work around still valid?  Any thoughts on where I'm going wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Bill