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Coreboot is designed to have a single serial console at most, on top of that it may have a CBMEM (virtual) console. Matters are complicated by the fact that console interface is different between bootblock and later stages. A linker list of console driver descriptors is used to allow to determine the set and type of console drivers at compile time. Even though the upstream seems to have done away with this approach, which does not seem the best idea. As an alternative this patch introduces a common wrapper which different UART drivers can plug in into. The driver exports a single API which can be used both directly (in bootblock) and through the wrapper (in later stages). The existing drivers can be adjusted to fit this scheme one by one. The common UART driver API also aligns fine with the upstream approach. BUG=chrome-os-partner:27784 TEST=none yet Original-Change-Id: Id1fe73d29f2a3c722bd77180beebaedb9bf7d6a1 Original-Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/196660 Original-Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit 94a36ad79a96f83d283c0fd073b05f98ae48820c) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: Id1fe73d29f2a3c722bd77180beebaedb9bf7d6a1 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7872 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------ * 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.