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Tim Wawrzynczak f6c53c0543 security/vboot: Use default kernel secdata size
When fetching antirollback information for the kernel, it is not always
known ahead of time what the current size of the kernel secdata area
is. If the incorrect size is passed, the TPM will return back the
correct size, but at the cost of an extra transaction; when using cr50
over I2C, this can be as much as 20ms. Currently, the first attempt uses
the minimium size (aka version 0 or 0.2), and if another size is used
(which is the case for all modern cr50-based boards, version 1 or 1.0),
then a transaction is wasted on every boot.

Therefore, change the default size sent to the TPM to be the default one
used in the VB2 API instead of the minimum one.

BUG=b:201304784
TEST=verify TPM initialization time drops by ~20ms. Also the Kernel NV
Index is read correctly in the BIOS logs.

src/security/tpm/tss/tcg-2.0/tss.c:231 index 0x1007 return code 0
src/security/tpm/tss/tcg-2.0/tss.c:231 index 0x1008 return code 0

 504:finished TPM initialization                       99,953 (65,606)

Change-Id: I22d9c0079bb1175f24ff7317d116e79aa5ba08ed
Signed-off-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian <kramasub@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58669
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Yu-Ping Wu <yupingso@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
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README.md

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 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

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.