Cannot boot after extra enabling device (AllocateRelocBlock memory allocation issue) on Z170

[seldo]

Hello,

 

I wanted to enable Intel Quick Sync for HW encoding yesterday.

For that I had to turn on the integrated graphics.

 

Now I am hitting a wall with the memory allocation at startup.

My issue is best described here: https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/tickets/125/?limit=1000

In short: the memory cannot be reallocated successfully by OsxAptioFixDrv-64/OsxAptioFix2Drv-64, leading to an error during the boot.

What's interesting is that I found issues for X99/X87, but nothing for Z170.

 

Here's my current peripherals:

• GTX 980
• FW400/800 card
• 2 SSD + 1 HDD
• onboard audio
• onboard NIC

 

Here's what I have in my drivers68UEFI:

• AppleImageCodec-64.efi
• AppleKeyAggregator-64.efi
• AppleUITheme-64.efi
• DataHubDxe-64.efi
• FSInject-64.efi
• FirmwareVolume-64.efi
• OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi
• OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
• SMCHelper-64.efi
• VBoxHfs-64.efi

 

I tried all kind of flavours of OsxAptioFixDrv-64/OsxAptioFix2Drv-64 (-free2000, or that one), with no luck.

Afaik, all OsxAptioFixDrv-64 are based on changing the value for KERNEL_BLOCK_NO_RT_SIZE_PAGES

For OsxAptioFix2Drv-64, I've seen different versions, but I couldn't get what was being changed.

 

Enabling/disabling the integrated graphics (default settings are DVMT Pre-Allocated 64M/DVMT Total Gfx Mem 64M) is what makes me boot/not boot.

 

I read that the slide=0 boot argument could do something, but didn't try it since I couldn't find documentation about it.

 

Have any of you having issues like this on a Z170 platform?

[seldo]

Here are the errors.

Today, I am booting without the igpu and the latest AF2

 

 

AF2: Error allocating 0x125d1 pages at 0x000000001524000 alloc type 2

 

AF1 (with igpu):

Requested men: 10D24000 - 232F4FFF, Pages 125D1, Size 125D1000

Reloc block: C78E000 - 26D53FFF, Pages 1A5C6, Size: 1A5C6000

Reloc block can handle men requests: 0 - 1A5C5FFF

 

AF1 (without igpu)

Requested men: 1E800000 - 1EFFFFFF, Pages 800, Size 800000

Reloc block: 2C78E000 - 46D53FFFF, Pages 1A5C6, Size: 1A5C6000

Reloc block can handle men requests: 0 - 1A5C5FFF

[seldo]

Assuming I read the error right, I updated AF1 with the following:

#define KERNEL_BLOCK_NO_RT_SIZE_PAGES	0x1A5D0

Instead of having an error, I have the following:

Using relic block: yes, hibernate wake: no
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

And it is stuck there.

 

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Since it is all about memory, I changed the setting of my iGPU from 64M to 32M of pre-allocated memory, and it can randomly boot. However, neither my patch nor free2000 has been working 100%. I have more than 50% failure, making the change not viable for day-to-day usage.

 

For now, I am keeping my iGPU disabled so I can boot successfully every time.

 

I played around with the *HFS*.efi drivers, but I do not think they have much effect here.

 

Running memmap with the iGPU enabled returns that I have 10000 pages less available after the allotment.