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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 7cb70d9abd Check for failed SPI command execution in flashrom. Although SPI itself 
does not have a mechanism to signal command failure, the SPI host may be
unable to send a given command over the wire due to security or hardware
limitations. The current code ignores these mechanisms completely and
simply assumes almost every command succeeds. Complain if SPI command
execution fails.

Since locked down Intel chipsets (like the one we had problems with
earlier) only allow a small subset of commands, find the common subset
of commands between the chipset and the ROM in the chip erase case. That
is accomplished by the new spi_chip_erase_60_c7() which can be used for
chips supporting both 0x60 and 0xc7 chip erase commands.

Both parts of the patch address problems seen in the real world. The
increased verbosity for the error case will help us diagnose and address
problems better.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Otherwise: Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@3757 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
 		2008-11-18 00:41:02 +00:00
documentation Rename almost all occurences of LinuxBIOS to coreboot. 2008-01-18 15:08:58 +00:00
payloads Signed-off-by: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> 2008-11-11 23:41:08 +00:00
src drop dead code in sb600 hda 2008-11-14 13:43:26 +00:00
targets Rename LinuxBIOS strings and filenames to coreboot. 2008-11-14 19:25:37 +00:00
util Check for failed SPI command execution in flashrom. Although SPI itself 2008-11-18 00:41:02 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
NEWS Rename almost all occurences of LinuxBIOS to coreboot. 2008-01-18 15:08:58 +00:00
README Rename almost all occurences of LinuxBIOS to coreboot. 2008-01-18 15:08:58 +00:00

README 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coreboot README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel.


Payloads
--------

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

 * A Linux kernel
 * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support)
 * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development)
 * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware)
 * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO)
 * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD)
 * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system)
 * memtest86 (for testing your RAM)


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


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 (mostly those derived from the Linux kernel) 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.