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This change updates memlayout.ld for Picasso to place all early stages (bootblock, romstage, FSP-M, verstage) and data buffers (vboot workbuf, APOB, preram-cbmem console, timestamp, early BSP stack) at the bottom of DRAM starting at 32MiB. This uses static allocation for most components by defining Kconfig variables for base and size. It relies on the linker to complain if any of the assumptions are broken. This also allows romstage to use linker symbols for _early_reserved_dram and _eearly_reserved_dram to store information in CBMEM about the early DRAM usage by coreboot before ramstage starts execution. This allows ramstage to reserve this memory region in BIOS tables so that S3 resume can reuse the same space without corrupting OS memory. BUG=b:155322763 TEST=Verified memory reported by coreboot: Writing coreboot table at 0xcc656000 0. 0000000000000000-0000000000000fff: CONFIGURATION TABLES 1. 0000000000001000-000000000009ffff: RAM 2. 00000000000a0000-00000000000fffff: RESERVED 3. 0000000000100000-0000000001ffffff: RAM 4. 0000000002000000-000000000223ffff: RESERVED 5. 0000000002240000-00000000cc512fff: RAM 6. 00000000cc513000-00000000cc6bffff: CONFIGURATION TABLES 7. 00000000cc6c0000-00000000cc7c7fff: RAMSTAGE 8. 00000000cc7c8000-00000000cd7fffff: CONFIGURATION TABLES 9. 00000000cd800000-00000000cfffffff: RESERVED 10. 00000000f8000000-00000000fbffffff: RESERVED 11. 0000000100000000-000000042f33ffff: RAM 12. 000000042f340000-000000042fffffff: RESERVED Signed-off-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com> Change-Id: I009e1ea71b5b5a8e65eba16911897b2586ccfdb6 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/42264 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.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 https://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:
Build Requirements
- make
- gcc / g++
Because Linux distribution compilers tend to use lots of patches. coreboot
does lots of "unusual" things in its build system, some of which break due
to those patches, sometimes by gcc aborting, sometimes - and that's worse -
by generating broken object code.
Two options: use our toolchain (eg. make crosstools-i386) or enable the
ANY_TOOLCHAIN
Kconfig option if you're feeling lucky (no support in this case). - iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
- pkg-config
- libssl-dev (openssl)
Optional:
- doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
- gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
- ncurses (for
make menuconfig
andmake nconfig
) - flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)
Building coreboot
Please consult https://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 https://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:
You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:
https://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.