coreboot-kgpe-d16/payloads/libpayload
Patrick Georgi 980a69b8c2 Attached patch moves functions out of the huge libpayload.h into headers
according to libc/posix traditions, to simplify porting applications to
payloads.

It also adds a couple of functions:
strcasecmp, strncasecmp, strcat, strtol, strspn, strcspn, strtok_r,
strtok, perror, exit, getpagesize

Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick.georgi@coresystems.de>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@5643 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
2010-06-24 11:16:10 +00:00
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arch Attached patch moves functions out of the huge libpayload.h into headers 2010-06-24 11:16:10 +00:00
bin Add __LIBPAYLOAD__ and __i386__/__powerpc__ symbols to lpgcc's build context. 2010-06-24 11:14:51 +00:00
configs Update libpayload default configuration so a make oldconfig 2010-03-26 11:47:13 +00:00
crypto [PATCH] libpayload: rename config.h to libpayload-config.h 2008-11-24 17:54:46 +00:00
curses Since some people disapprove of white space cleanups mixed in regular commits 2010-04-27 06:56:47 +00:00
drivers Follow up to the USB refactoring patch: Missed setting pid values correctly. 2010-06-11 14:25:40 +00:00
include Attached patch moves functions out of the huge libpayload.h into headers 2010-06-24 11:16:10 +00:00
lib This patch fixes payloads on certain Fedora versions 2009-07-18 15:18:22 +00:00
libc Attached patch moves functions out of the huge libpayload.h into headers 2010-06-24 11:16:10 +00:00
sample [PATCH] libpayload: rename config.h to libpayload-config.h 2008-11-24 17:54:46 +00:00
util Fix libpayload xconfig script to find coreboot utils xgcc. 2010-06-22 19:12:58 +00:00
Config.in Since some people disapprove of white space cleanups mixed in regular commits 2010-04-27 06:56:47 +00:00
Doxyfile Since some people disapprove of white space cleanups mixed in regular commits 2010-04-27 06:56:47 +00:00
LICENSES Since some people disapprove of white space cleanups mixed in regular commits 2010-04-27 06:56:47 +00:00
Makefile Change the libpayload "make install" default destination to be the source directory. Libpayload is not a runtime library and has many different configurations for different payloads, so doesn't really belong in /opt. 2010-06-22 17:24:11 +00:00
README Add more information to the libpayload README (trivial). 2008-08-18 18:55:33 +00:00

README

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libpayload README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

libpayload is a minimal library to support standalone payloads
that can be booted with firmware like coreboot. It handles the setup
code, and provides common C library symbols such as malloc() and printf().

Note: This is _not_ a standard library for use with an operating system,
rather it's only useful for coreboot payload development!
See http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot.


Installation
------------

 $ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/payloads/libpayload

 $ cd libpayload

 $ make menuconfig

 $ make

 $ sudo make install (optional, will install into /opt per default)

As libpayload is for 32bit x86 systems only, you might have to install the
32bit libgcc version, otherwise your payloads will fail to compile.
On Debian systems you'd do 'apt-get install gcc-multilib' for example.


Usage
-----

Here's an example of a very simple payload (hello.c) and how to build it:

 #include <libpayload.h>

 int main(void)
 {
     printf("Hello, world!\n");
     return 0;
 }

Building the payload using the 'lpgcc' compiler wrapper:

 $ lpgcc -o hello.elf hello.c

Please see the sample/ directory for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

The main website is http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload.

For additional information, patches, and discussions, please join the
coreboot mailing list at http://coreboot.org/Mailinglist, where most
libpayload developers are subscribed.


Copyright and License
---------------------

See LICENSES.