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Stefan Reinauer a8e1168064 This patch contains some significant updates to the i82801gx component and will
be required for a series of later patches. Roughly it contains:

* fixed SMBus driver (was not compiled in before)
* fixed S-ATA/P-ATA combination
* Added warnings to drivers being called with a NULL dev->chip_info 
* Set subsystem ids for those boards that have none specified in Options.lb
* Fix license headers. The code was originally released under GPL v2 but
  some files sneaked in with a v2 or later header.
* some attempts to fix azalia/Intel HDA.. not working yet
* clean up and fix pci bridge handling code
* Add Config based GPI handling to LPC driver
* Add HPET enable function
* Enable clock gating where appropriate
* first attempt at USB debug console support (not working yet)
* Add required options to kontron board
* many other minor changes

Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw@gmail.com>



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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 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.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. Examples include:

 * A Linux kernel
 * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support)
 * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development)
 * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware)
 * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO)
 * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD)
 * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system)
 * memtest86 (for testing your RAM)


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


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.