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Julius Werner f8e1764bb9 security/vboot: Ensure firmware body size is respected again
CB:36845 simplified how coreboot finds the RW CBFS after vboot has and
eliminated a layer of caching. Unfortunately, we missed the fact that
the former cached value didn't exactly match the FMAP section... it was
in fact truncated to the data actually used by vboot. That patch
unintentionally broke this truncation which leads to performance
regressions on certain CBFS accesses.

This patch makes use of a new API function added to vboot (CL:1965920)
which we can use to retrieve the real firmware body length as before.

(Also stop making all the vb2_context pointers const. vboot generally
never marks context pointers as const in its API functions, even when
the function doesn't modify the context. Therefore constifying it inside
coreboot just makes things weird because it prevents you from calling
random API functions for no reason. If we really want const context
pointers, that's a refactoring that would have to start inside vboot
first.)

This patch brings in upstream vboot commit 4b0408d2:
2019-12-12 Julius Werner   2lib: Move firmware body size reporting to
			   separate function

Change-Id: I167cd40cb435dbae7f09d6069c9f1ffc1d99fe13
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/37680
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathew King <mathewk@chromium.org>
2019-12-13 20:14:26 +00:00
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Documentation Doc/mb/gigabyte/ga-h61m-s2pv: Correct IFD section 2019-12-13 17:33:06 +00:00
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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.