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Patrick Georgi bbc880eee7 amdk8/amdfam10: Use CAR_GLOBAL for sysinfo This gets rid of the somewhat unstructured placement of AMD's sysinfo structure in CAR. We used to carve out some CAR space using a Kconfig variable, and then put sysinfo there manually (by "virtue" of pointer magic). Now it's a variable with the CAR_GLOBAL qualifier, and build system magic. For this, the following steps were done (but must happen together since the intermediates won't build): - Add new CAR_GLOBAL sysinfo_car - point all sysinfo pointers to sysinfo_car instead of GLOBAL_VAR - remove DCACHE_RAM_GLOBAL_VAR_SIZE - from CAR setup (no need to reserve the space) - commented out code (that was commented out for years) - only copy sizeof(sysinfo) into RAM after ram init, where before it copied the whole GLOBAL_VAR area. - from Kconfig Change-Id: I3cbcccd883ca6751326c8e32afde2eb0c91229ed Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/1887 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Marc Jones <marcj303@gmail.com>		2012-11-28 07:45:05 +01:00
3rdparty@b617b812e3	Use new system agent binaries	2012-11-17 00:29:18 +01:00
documentation	AMD S3: Add a document about S3 on AMD platform	2012-08-15 23:19:50 +02:00
payloads	libpayload: Add _ and + to USB HID keymap	2012-11-27 18:29:31 +01:00
src	amdk8/amdfam10: Use CAR_GLOBAL for sysinfo	2012-11-28 07:45:05 +01:00
util	build system: Split linking into multiple steps	2012-11-27 22:02:02 +01:00
.gitignore	Utility to dump boot timing table	2012-11-12 03:35:20 +01:00
.gitmodules	Add 3rdparty as submodule	2012-05-01 00:08:37 +02:00
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COPYING	update license template.	2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile	build system: Add hook to postprocess classes (object lists)	2012-11-27 22:01:56 +01:00
Makefile.inc	build system: Split linking into multiple steps	2012-11-27 22:02:02 +01:00
README	Update README with newer version of the text from the web page	2011-06-15 10:16:33 +02:00

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
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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
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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
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 * 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
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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
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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.