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Matthias Gazzari cc1e3b64ed Fix freeze during chipset lockdown on Nehalem
Remove locking of PCI device 00:00.0 registers (nehalem/finalize.c)
and remove setting the zeroth bit of the MSR_LT_LOCK_MEMORY = 0x2e7 MSR
register (model_2065x/finalize.c) to fix a frozen boot and S3 resume issue
which became apparent with commit d533b16669.

More detailed, either setting the LSB of the 32 bit register at 0x98
of the PCI device 00:00.0 (in the intel_nehalem_finalize_smm function) or
setting the LSB of the the MSR register MSR_LT_LOCK_MEMORY = 0x2e7 (in the
intel_model_2065x_finalize_smm function) indepentenly causes a freeze
during bootup or a complete session loss on resuming from S3 as described
here: https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2018-April/086564.html

It seems like Nehalem CPUs do not have a MSR_LT_LOCK_MEMORY register.
Additionally, the "Intel Core i7-600, i5-500, i5-400 and i3-300 Mobile
Processor Series, Datasheet Volume Two" indicates that registers of the
PCI device 00:00.0 cannot be locked manually. Instead, they can only be
locked by TXT, VT-d, CMD.LOCK.MEMCONFIG, ME_SM_LOCK or D_LCK.
Finally, the addresses and sizes of these registers were partially wrong.

Tested on Lenovo X201i with a Core i3 330M (no AES-NI, no VT-d and no TXT
support compared to the Core i5 and Core i7 processors of a X201).

Change-Id: I9d568d5c05807ebf7e131b3e5be8e5445476d61b
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gazzari <mail@qtux.eu>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/25914
Reviewed-by: Nicola Corna <nicola@corna.info>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2018-05-01 16:23:56 +00:00
3rdparty Update vboot submodule to upstream master 2018-04-26 16:35:16 +00:00
configs configs: Add intel/harcuvar FSP 2.0 sample configuration 2017-10-04 02:56:33 +00:00
Documentation Documentation/Doxyfile.coreboot: Remove trailing whitespace 2018-04-27 09:10:27 +00:00
payloads libpayload/drivers/usb/ohci_private.h: Add parentheses around macro 2018-04-29 18:13:08 +00:00
src Fix freeze during chipset lockdown on Nehalem 2018-05-01 16:23:56 +00:00
util cbfstool: Add region offset information to layout command 2018-04-30 06:24:12 +00:00
.checkpatch.conf .checkpatch.conf: Ignore CORRUPTED_PATCH lint 2017-10-29 10:11:58 +00:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format to be compliant with linux kernel coding style 2018-04-23 09:26:08 +00:00
.gitignore Documentation: Add support for building with Sphinx 2018-04-26 12:25:03 +00:00
.gitmodules Set up 3rdparty/libgfxinit 2016-10-29 01:35:03 +02:00
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gnat.adc gnat.adc: Do not generate assertion code for Refined_Post 2016-10-29 01:33:31 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: change second PC Engines maintainer 2018-03-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Makefile Makefile: Add filelist to help 2018-01-29 15:35:11 +00:00
Makefile.inc device: Include devicetree in SMM stage 2018-02-22 09:55:19 +00:00
README README: Update requirements 2017-06-27 17:04:32 +00:00
toolchain.inc toolchain: Always use GCC for Ada sources 2017-09-23 10:57:40 +00:00

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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:

 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


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' and 'make 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:

  https://www.coreboot.org

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.