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Bruce Griffith 37a1d6c955 AMD Hudson/Yangtze: Enable support for SATA port multipliers
This patch sets a bit in the Yangtze southbridge to enable
the extra protocol necessary to handle port multiplier chips.
This has been turned on during most of Kabini development
without any notable impact. Olive Hill has an optional daughter
board that incorporates Silicon Image Steel Vines chips.  This
change has been tested with and without the daughter board.  This
change can be regression tested using any Hudson-based motherboard,
although it has no impact on boards with discreet Hudson/Bolton
southbridges.

This was tested for impact on SATA performance in the absence of
a port multiplier using the IOZone benchmarks within the Phoronix
Test Suite.  A SATA 3 hard drive (6.0 Gbps) and an SSD were
connected to the ports on Olive Hill without using the port
multiplier card.  The test results contained more run-to-run
variation within the same configuration than was seen in the
aggregate results comparing the interface with and without the
port multiplier protocol additions.  In other words, the test
had less accuracy than the impact caused by turning on port
multiplier support.

Change-Id: Ie87873b093f3e2a6a5c83b96ccb6c898d3e25f72
Signed-off-by: Bruce Griffith <bruce.griffith@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Frodin <dave.frodin@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3808
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
2013-08-05 22:08:25 +02:00
3rdparty@aebd21811d AMD Yangtze: Update 3rdparty hash for new blobs 2013-07-18 20:06:55 +02:00
documentation Get rid of MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL; compile all messages into the coreboot binary 2013-05-10 17:33:49 +02:00
payloads ARM: Tell the linker memset and memcpy are functions. 2013-07-10 21:49:45 +02:00
src AMD Hudson/Yangtze: Enable support for SATA port multipliers 2013-08-05 22:08:25 +02:00
util inteltool: Print raw CPUID and make hexadecimal values unambiguous 2013-07-23 12:06:24 +02:00
.gitignore ifdfake - Create an IFD with just a section layout 2013-06-24 17:56:42 +02:00
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Makefile Make: Use unaltered object list for dependency inclusion 2013-05-20 10:28:25 +02:00
Makefile.inc sandybridge: Make build possible without descriptor.bin 2013-06-24 17:42:48 +02:00
README Update README with newer version of the text from the web page 2011-06-15 10:16:33 +02:00

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
--------

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
------------------

 * 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
-----------------

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.