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Aaron Durbin 152e5a03a1 libpayload: honor TSC information under CONFIG_LP_TIMER_RDTSC
When CONFIG_LP_TIMER_RDTSC is enabled honor the TSC information
exported in the coreboot tables as the cpu_khz frequency. That
allows get_cpu_speed() not to be called which currently relies
on the 8254 PIT. As certain x86 platforms allow that device
to be optional or turned off for power saving reasons, allow
a path where get_cpu_speed() is no longer called. Additionally,
this approach also allows the libpayload to not duplicate logic
that already exists in coreboot.

BUG=chrome-os-partner:50214
BRANCH=glados
TEST=Confirmed in payload TSC frequency is honored instead of
     using get_cpu_speed().

Change-Id: Ib8993afdfb49065d43de705d6dbbdb9174b6f2c4
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/13671
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Petrov <andrey.petrov@intel.com>
2016-02-19 19:50:25 +01:00
3rdparty arch/arm64: Compile arm-trusted-firmware with coreboot timestamp 2016-02-18 11:08:01 +01:00
Documentation Documentation: Add Quark EDK2 build instructions for Linux 2016-02-09 19:22:06 +01:00
payloads libpayload: honor TSC information under CONFIG_LP_TIMER_RDTSC 2016-02-19 19:50:25 +01:00
src x86: add coreboot table entry for TSC info 2016-02-19 19:50:10 +01:00
util board_status.sh: Be smarter about cbfstool usage 2016-02-18 04:46:24 +01:00
.clang-format
.gitignore Payloads: Add U-Boot as a coreboot-payload 2016-02-18 20:53:42 +01:00
.gitmodules git modules: rename git submodules to avoid hierarchies 2016-02-11 20:55:55 +01:00
.gitreview
COPYING
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Designate Intel maintainers for FSP 1.0 Baytrail 2015-12-30 20:06:52 +01:00
Makefile build system: avoid setting HOSTCC to " gcc" 2016-02-02 14:35:11 +01:00
Makefile.inc Payloads: Add U-Boot as a coreboot-payload 2016-02-18 20:53:42 +01:00
README
toolchain.inc power8: try to fix toolchain.inc for power8. 2016-02-17 23:43:38 +01:00

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
coreboot README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 http://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:

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

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 http://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 http://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:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://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.