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Gabe Black 0bf1febed8 elog: Get rid of the descriptor type and some unnecessary wrappers There was always exactly one elog descriptor declared and initialized, but its contents were being accessed through a pointer that was passed back and forth between functions instead of being accessed directly. This made the code more verbose than it needed to be and harder to follow. To address this the descriptor type was eliminated, its contents were turned into individual global variables, and various functions were adjusted to no longer take the descriptor as an argument. Similarly, the code was more verbose and complicated than it needed to be because of several wrapper functions which wrapped a single line of code which called an underlying function with particular arguments and were only used once. This makes it harder to tell what the code is doing because the call to the real function you may already be familiar with is obscured behind a new function you've never seen before. It also adds one more text to the file as a whole while providing at best a marginal benefit. Those functions were removed and their callers now call their contents directly. Built and booted on Link. Ran mosys eventlog list. Cleared the event log and ran mosys eventlog list again. Added 2000 events and ran mosys eventlog list. Cleared the log again and ran mosys eventlog list. Change-Id: I4f5f6b9f4f508548077b7f5a92f4322db99e01ca Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/49310 Reviewed-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4245 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>		2013-12-02 15:18:06 +01:00
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payloads	libpayload: Drop PowerPC architecture	2013-11-26 00:08:39 +01:00
src	elog: Get rid of the descriptor type and some unnecessary wrappers	2013-12-02 15:18:06 +01:00
util	cbfstool: check potential microcode update earlier	2013-11-25 23:24:57 +01:00
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Makefile	arch/x86/Makefile.inc: Pass $(AS) and $(CPP) to SeaBIOS	2013-10-17 01:59:50 +02:00
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README

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

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


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

For details please consult:

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


Build Requirements
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 * gcc / g++
 * make

Optional:

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


Building coreboot
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Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
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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 http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


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

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
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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.