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Stefan Reinauer 8f993784ef ARMv7/Exynos: Fix memory location assumptions
This patch cleans out a lot of unused variables in the
ARM Kconfig files and introduces CONFIG_RAMSTAGE_BASE
which is similar to CONFIG_RAMBASE on x86.
This gets rid of the hard coded assumption that on ARM
coreboot is always executed at the lowest DRAM address.
But in fact, this might not be true because we might want
coreboot to live at the end of RAM, or in SRAM

Change-Id: I03e992645f9eb730e39a521aa21f702959311f74
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/168645
Reviewed-by: David Hendrix <dhendrix@chromium.org>
Tested-by: David Hendrix <dhendrix@chromium.org>
(cherry picked from commit 15b87892eb2d5e27759c49dc6c8c7e626f651d77)
Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6634
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
2014-08-14 01:43:57 +02:00
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payloads arm: libpayload: Add cache coherent DMA memory definition and management 2014-08-13 00:04:14 +02:00
src ARMv7/Exynos: Fix memory location assumptions 2014-08-14 01:43:57 +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
--------

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.