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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger e5b44ab4dc All "unknown xy SPI chip" entries claim to have status UNTESTED for
probe/read/erase/write. That is incorrect.

A bit of confusion comes from how the #defines are named. We call them
TEST_BAD_*, but the message printed by flashrom says:
"This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations:"

Something that is unimplemented is definitely not working.

Neither of the chip entries mentioned above has erase or write functions
implemented, so erase and write are not working.
Since their size is unknown, we can't read them in. That means read is
not working as well.
Probing is a different matter. If a chip-specific probe function had
matched, we wouldn't have to handle the chip with the "unknown xy SPI
chip" fallback. I'm tempted to call that "not working" as well, but I'm
open to discussion on this point.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>


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documentation small updates as suggested by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger. 2009-04-21 22:05:50 +00:00
payloads Add high coreboot table support to libpayload 2009-03-17 16:41:01 +00:00
src drop unused variable. 2009-04-22 12:38:23 +00:00
targets Add an "-l <num>" argument to abuild that sets the LOGLEVEL variables 2009-04-21 20:31:18 +00:00
util All "unknown xy SPI chip" entries claim to have status UNTESTED for 2009-04-22 13:33:43 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
NEWS Rename almost all occurences of LinuxBIOS to coreboot. 2008-01-18 15:08:58 +00:00
README Improvements for the coreboot v2 README: 2009-04-17 17:11:39 +00:00

README

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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.