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Ward Vandewege ec2bd53c37 If you have 
option CONFIG_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA=1
  option CONFIG_PRECOMPRESSED_PAYLOAD=1

set in Config.lb but accidentally use an uncompressed payload, coreboot (v2)
bombs out like this:

  elfboot: Attempting to load payload.
  rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffdefff
  Uncompressing to RAM 0x01000000 Decoder scratchpad too small!
  Decoding error = 1
  Unexpected Exception: 6 @ 10:04000408 - Halting
  Code: 0 eflags: 00010057
  eax: 00000101 ebx: 04000400 ecx: 000003d4 edx: fffc0000
  edi: 04000400 esi: 04000401 ebp: 04000400 esp: 0013dfb4

The attached patch modifies v2's lzma code so that it assumes an uncompressed
payload if it fails to find a properly compressed payload.

Compare with the fatal error above:

  elfboot: Attempting to load payload.
  rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffdefff
  Uncompressing to RAM 0x01000000 Decoder scratchpad too small!
   olen = 0x00000000 done.
  Decompression failed. Assuming payload is uncompressed...
  Found ELF candidate at offset 0
  header_offset is 0
  Try to load at offset 0x0

If you don't have CONFIG_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA and
CONFIG_PRECOMPRESSED_PAYLOAD set and use an uncompressed payload, things are as
before:

  elfboot: Attempting to load payload.
  rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffdefff
  Found ELF candidate at offset 0
  header_offset is 0
  Try to load at offset 0x0

One can argue that this is a case of 'builder beware', but my counter argument
is that anything that causes unexpected runtime breakage is really, really,
really bad, and should be avoided where possible.

This patch also fixes one erroneous comment.

Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>



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README 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.


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.