If CONSOLE_SPI_FLASH config is enabled, we write the cbmem
messages to the 'CONSOLE' area in FMAP which allows us to grab the
log when we read the flash.
This is useful when you don't have usb debugging, and
UART lines are hard to find. Since a failure to boot would
require a hardware flasher anyways, we can get the log
at the same time.
This feature should only be used when no alternative is
found and only when we can't boot the system, because
excessive writes to the flash is not recommended.
This has been tested on purism/librem13 v2 and librem 15 v3 which
run Intel Skylake hardware. It has not been tested on other archs
or with a driver other than the fast_spi.
Change-Id: I74a297b94f6881d8c27cbe5168f161d8331c3df3
Signed-off-by: Youness Alaoui <youness.alaoui@puri.sm>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/19849
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com>
We still add a master header for compatibility purposes, and the default
layouts don't cover anything non-coreboot (eg. IFD regions) yet.
The default layouts can be overridden by specifying an fmd file, from
which the fmap is generated.
Future work:
- map IFD regions to fmap regions
- non-x86: build minimalistic trampolines that jump into the first cbfs
file, so the bootblock can be part of CBFS instead of reserving a
whole 64K for it.
- teach coreboot's cbfs code to work without the master header
- teach coreboot's cbfs code to work on different fmap regions
Change-Id: Id1085dcd5107cf0e02e8dc1e77dc0dd9497a819c
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/11692
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Youness Alaoui