Recent patches in coreboot have fixed the freeze issues related to the
use of me_cleaner on Nehalem.
However, at least on the Lenovo X201, with me_cleaner some PCIe devices
(like the SATA and USB controllers) disappear. In particular, setting
the AltMeDisable bit ("-S" or "-s" flag) makes them disappear
completely, while unsetting it makes them disappear only during cold
boots.
This kind of behaviour was already observed by Youness Alaoui on the
Purism Librem laptops ([1]), and it seems related to some required
board-specific PCIe configuration in the ME's MFS partition.
For this reason, on the Lenovo X201, "-w EFFS" has been added to the
me_cleaner arguments, which whitelists the MFS-equivalent partition for
ME generation 2. This fixes all the issues, and the PCIe devices work as
expected.
[1] https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/
Change-Id: Ie77a80d2cb4945cf1c984bdb0fb1cc2f18e82ebc
Signed-off-by: Nicola Corna <nicola@corna.info>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27178
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Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
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