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Hung-Te Lin 03e9cb9b35 mediatek/mt8183: Enable bootblock self-decompression
MT8183 only allows booting from eMMC, so we have to do eMMC emulation
from an external source, for example EC, which makes the size of
bootblock very important.

A fully functional bootblock (that can boot into verstage or romstage)
is about 38000 bytes. If self decompression (CONFIG_COMPRESS_BOOTBLOCK)
is enabled, only 25088 (66%) bytes are needed.

Inspired from crosreview.com/1070018.

BUG=b:80501386
TEST=manually flashed into kukui and boots into romstage.

Change-Id: I7a739866a4ea3bcafe2ff7b9e88d5ed00f3f3e40
Signed-off-by: Hung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27599
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
2018-07-26 11:34:05 +00:00
3rdparty 3rdparty/blobs: Update submodule pointer to include latest AMD ucode 2018-07-02 07:41:03 +00:00
configs configs: add PC Engines apu2 sample configuration 2018-05-19 16:55:56 +00:00
Documentation Documenation/conf.py: Make sure release is a string 2018-07-26 11:15:56 +00:00
payloads libpayload/arm64: Drop unused static array 2018-07-20 11:06:36 +00:00
src mediatek/mt8183: Enable bootblock self-decompression 2018-07-26 11:34:05 +00:00
util cbfstool/extract: ignore compression field for some payload segments 2018-07-24 20:42:37 +00:00
.checkpatch.conf .checkpatch.conf: Ignore CORRUPTED_PATCH lint 2017-10-29 10:11:58 +00:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format to be compliant with linux kernel coding style 2018-04-23 09:26:08 +00:00
.gitignore Documentation: Add support for building with Sphinx 2018-04-26 12:25:03 +00:00
.gitmodules Set up 3rdparty/libgfxinit 2016-10-29 01:35:03 +02:00
.gitreview
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gnat.adc gnat.adc: Do not generate assertion code for Refined_Post 2016-10-29 01:33:31 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: change second PC Engines maintainer 2018-03-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Makefile Makefile: Add filelist to help 2018-01-29 15:35:11 +00:00
Makefile.inc Build system: Add fixes for scanbuild 2018-07-24 09:08:55 +00:00
README README: Update requirements 2017-06-27 17:04:32 +00:00
toolchain.inc Introduce bootblock self-decompression 2018-05-22 02:44:14 +00:00

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coreboot README
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
(firmware) found in most computers.  coreboot performs a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
payload.

With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
required.

coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * make
 * gcc / g++
   Because Linux distribution compilers tend to use lots of patches. coreboot
   does lots of "unusual" things in its build system, some of which break due
   to those patches, sometimes by gcc aborting, sometimes - and that's worse -
   by generating broken object code.
   Two options: use our toolchain (eg. make crosstools-i386) or enable the
   ANY_TOOLCHAIN Kconfig option if you're feeling lucky (no support in this
   case).
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * pkg-config
 * libssl-dev (openssl)

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig' and 'make nconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult https://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see https://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  https://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  https://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.