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To ease some of my debugging pain on the unichrome, i decided i needed to move FB size selection into cmos, so i could test a size and then reset it to the default after loading this value so that the next reboot uses the (working) default again. This meant implementing set_option in parallel to get_option. get_option was then found to have inversed argument ordering (like outb) and passing char * and then depending on the cmos layout length, which made me feel quite uncomfortable. Since we either have reserved space (which we shouldn't do anything with in these two functions), an enum or a hexadecimal value, unsigned int seemed like the way to go. So all users of get_option now have their arguments inversed and switched from using ints to unsigned ints now. The way get_cmos_value was implemented forced us to not overlap byte and to have multibyte values be byte aligned. This logic is now adapted to do a full uint32_t read (when needed) at any offset and any length up to 32, and the shifting all happens inside an uint32_t as well. set_cmos_value was implemented similarly. Both routines have been extensively tested in a quick separate little program as it is not easy to get this stuff right. build_opt_tbl.c was altered to function correctly within these new parameters. The enum value retrieval has been changed strol(..., NULL, 10) to stroul(..., NULL, 0), so that we not only are able to use unsigned ints now but so that we also interprete hex values correctly. The 32bit limit gets imposed on all entries not marked reserved, an unused "user_data" field that appeared in a lot of cmos.layouts has been changed to reserved as well. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be> Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@4332 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 * python * perl Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Documentation 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 (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.