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Julius Werner f780c40f40 CBFS: Correct ROM_SIZE for ARM boards, use CBFS_SIZE for cbfstool
Some projects (like ChromeOS) put more content than described by CBFS
onto their image. For top-aligned images (read: x86), this has
traditionally been achieved with a CBFS_SIZE Kconfig (which denotes the
area actually managed by CBFS, as opposed to ROM_SIZE) that is used to
calculate the CBFS entry start offset. On bottom-aligned boards, many
define a fake (smaller) ROM_SIZE for only the CBFS part, which is not
consistently done and can be an issue because ROM_SIZE is expected to be
a power of two.

This patch changes all non-x86 boards to describe their actual
(physical) ROM size via one of the BOARD_ROMSIZE_KB_xxx options as a
mainboard Kconfig select (which is the correct place to declare
unchangeable physical properties of the board). It also changes the
cbfstool create invocation to use CBFS_SIZE as the -s parameter for
those architectures, which defaults to ROM_SIZE but gets overridden for
special use cases like ChromeOS. This has the advantage that cbfstool
has a consistent idea of where the area it is responsible for ends,
which offers better bounds-checking and is needed for a subsequent fix.

Also change the FMAP offset to default to right behind the (now
consistently known) CBFS region for non-x86 boards, which has emerged as
a de-facto standard on those architectures and allows us to reduce the
amount of custom configuration. In the future, the nightmare that is
ChromeOS's image build system could be redesigned to enforce this
automatically, and also confirm that it doesn't overwrite any space used
by CBFS (which is now consistently defined as the file size of
coreboot.rom on non-x86).

CQ-DEPEND=CL:231576,CL:231475
BRANCH=None
BUG=chromium:422501
TEST=Built and booted on Veyron_Pinky.

Change-Id: I89aa5b30e25679e074d4cb5eee4c08178892ada6
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Original-Commit-Id: e707c67c69599274b890d0686522880aa2e16d71
Original-Change-Id: I4fce5a56a8d72f4c4dd3a08c129025f1565351cc
Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/229974
Original-Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/9619
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
2015-04-14 09:01:23 +02:00
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payloads serial: Combine Tegra and Rockchip UARTs to generic 8250_mmio32 2015-04-10 07:50:21 +02:00
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README

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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 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

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://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 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 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.