diff --git a/site/docs/install/e6400.md b/site/docs/install/e6400.md index 1f4ac18..e8f1009 100644 --- a/site/docs/install/e6400.md +++ b/site/docs/install/e6400.md @@ -62,6 +62,19 @@ Intel GPU: libre video initialisation available Canoeboot uses coreboot's native `libgfxinit` on this platform, for variants with Intel graphics. +Intel GPU errata +---------------- + +Systems with a 1440 x 900 display panel instead of the more common 1280 x 800 +panel will have garbled graphics before the OS boots (i.e. in SeaBIOS or GRUB) +in Libreboot 20240504 and earlier. This is fixed in releases after 20240504. + +This was caused by libgfxinit calculating PLL divider values for the pixel clock +assuming a 96 MHz reference frequency, whereas the E6400 uses a 100 MHz +reference frequency. The error is not large enough to affect the lower +resolution panels, but is enough to affect the 1440 x 900 panels which use a +higher pixel clock. + How to flash internally (no diassembly) =======================================