t420 nvs4200 rom dump

Hello everyone.
Can anyone be of help and provide a working nvs bios dump (from a vendor bios not the coreboot one) using two of those methods.
If it's not possible to put it on forum, please email it [email protected]
Thank you.

Retrieval via Linux kernel
Some Linux drivers (e.g. radeon for AMD) make option ROMs like the video blob available to user space via sysfs. To use that to get the blob you need to enable it first. To that end you need to determine the path within /sys corresponding to your graphics chip. It looks like this: /sys/devices/pci<domain>:<bus>/<domain>:<bus>:<slot>.<function>/rom.

You can get the respective information with lspci, for example:

# lspci -tv
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Root Complex
+-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8210]
...

Here the the needed bits (for the ROM of the Kabini device) are:

• PCI domain: (almost always) 0000
• PCI bus: (also very commonly) 00
• PCI slot: 01 (logical slot; different from any physical slots)
• PCI function: 0 (a PCI device might have multiple functions... shouldn't matter here)

To enable reading of the ROM you need to write 1 to the respective file, e.g.:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/rom

The same file should then contain the video blob and it should be possible to simply copy it, e.g.:

cp /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/rom vgabios.bin

romheaders should print reasonable output for this file.


Extraction from mapped memory (if everything else fails)
However you might be able to retrieve your on-board video BIOS with Linux as well.

• Boot up a machine with a commercial BIOS (not coreboot) with the video card you wish to work under coreboot.
• You can see where and how much your card's bios is using by doing a

grep 'Video ROM' /proc/iomem

• From the command line enter:
  dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1k count=64 skip=768
  This assumes you card's BIOS is cached at 0xc0000, and is 64K long.

dd if=/dev/mem of=video.bios.bin.4 bs=65536 count=1 skip=12

 

I can get you an NVS 5200 dump with a 64-bit GDDR5 memory interface. It's the same GF108 core as the 4200 but half isn't disabled. The device ID will need to be modded but it should otherwise be fine assuming the memory interfaces match.

 

I tried the dump from t520 nvs4200 with no luck. And I need the in-memory rom, as it looks like that the rom is modified on load.

 

On a second thought, send it. from those two dumps and one from the EFI tables.
I'll try all of them.
Here you can take a look on how to extract one coreboot[dot]org/VGA_support

 

What do you mean by in-memory? Do you mean how it's loaded into the system memory, or how it is flashed on the BIOS chip? I can only get you the raw flash.

 

You can send me the raw one I'll test will it make my video better or not. But in the main post there is a statement what type of vbios I need and where should it be extracted from.