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Scott Duplichan 88dc531781 This patch solves crashes and BSODs that occur when booting Win7 with
AMD RS780 uma graphics. Tested with frame buffer sizes 64m through 1GB
by running dxdiag and Windows media player at 1600x1200 true color.
Additional changes needed to boot Win7 on Mahogany_fam10 will follow.

-- Enable and program the debug bar as required by the ATI graphics driver.
   First, make the debug bar writable and allow resource allocation code
   to program it. Once programmed, enable its operation.
-- Disable the family 10h processor mmconf while the RS780 mmconf is in use.
-- Make strap programming more closely follow the reference BIOS.
-- Disable PCIe bar 3 after using it.
-- UMA size is no longer hardcoded.
-- Disable write combining for all steppings to eliminate stability problem.
-- Correct task file data.
-- Improve the accuracy of the Atom table that passes information to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Scott Duplichan <scott@notabs.org>
Acked-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@6120 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
2010-11-24 00:39:44 +00:00
documentation Whitespace/typo/cosmetic fixes (trivial). 2010-09-23 18:48:27 +00:00
payloads Printing coreboot debug messages on VGA console is pretty much useless, since 2010-11-22 08:09:50 +00:00
src This patch solves crashes and BSODs that occur when booting Win7 with 2010-11-24 00:39:44 +00:00
util USBDEBUG by default in abuild was committed by mistake and 2010-11-23 07:30:50 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile Add test to check for up-to-date GPL license headers to lint. 2010-11-19 10:16:43 +00:00
README Whitespace/typo/cosmetic fixes (trivial). 2010-09-23 18:48:27 +00:00

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coreboot README
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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 or a bootloader.


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.