This can simplify the overal structure of GNU Boot as we don't need to
compute some git tag everytime in the code.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNU boot has mailing lists and an IRC channel. This commit reflects that in
contact.md
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNUtoo: Fixed lines over 80 characters, fixed main mailing list scope,
grouped mailing lists together.
Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
The t60_unbrick.html[1] page didn't show any images on gnu.org but it
worked fine locally with 'make test'. A sysadmin from the FSF noticed
that these pages had an .htaccess and after temporarily removing them
the pages worked again. So removing the .htaccess should fix that
issue.
[1]https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/install/t60_unbrick.html
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
It is possible to install GNU Boot on I945 Thinkpads without opening
the computer even if the nonfree bios sets the bootblock region (the
last 64K of the flash chip) read-only.
The flash chip looks like that:
+----- -----+---------------------------+-------------------------+
| ... | Secondary bootblock (64k) | Primary bootblock (64k) |
+----- -----+---------------------------+-------------------------+
0 0x1e0000 2MiB
To bypass the read-only restriction we use an utility (bucts) that
tells the hardware to swap the primary bootblock with the secondary
one for the next boot. We then have to disable that swap and reflash
again.
CONFIG_INTEL_ADD_TOP_SWAP_BOOTBLOCK generates the two bootblocks
directly in coreboot so we don't need to use special commands to do
that anymore.
In addition the MacBook 1.1 and 2.1 are known not to have such
read-only restrictions so they don't need to have
CONFIG_INTEL_ADD_TOP_SWAP_BOOTBLOCK enabled.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix, running 'shellcheck -x build' produces the following
errors/warnings:
In update line 81:
case "${option}" in
^-- SC1009 (info):
The mentioned syntax error was in this case expression.
In update line 82:
list)
^-- SC1073 (error):
Couldn't parse this case item. Fix to allow more checks.
In update line 92:
all)
^-- SC1072 (error):
Fix any mentioned problems and try again.
^-- SC1074 (error):
Did you forget the ;; after the previous case item?
After fixing these and rerunning 'shellcheck -x build', we then have
the following errors/warnings:
In update line 23:
[ "x${DEBUG+set}" = 'xset' ] && set -v
^-------------^ SC2268 (style):
Avoid x-prefix in comparisons as it no longer serves a purpose.
In update line 32:
ls -d resources/packages/*/update/ | \
^-- SC2012 (info):
Use find instead of ls to better handle non-alphanumeric filenames.
In update line 40:
ls -d resources/packages/"${package}"/update/* | \
^-- SC2012 (info):
Use find instead of ls to better handle non-alphanumeric filenames.
In update line 95:
resources/packages/"${package}"/update/"${option}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
In update line 102:
"${pkg_dir}"/update/"${option}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
so we fix them as well.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix, running 'shellcheck -x build' produces the following
errors/warnings:
In download line 26:
[ "x${DEBUG+set}" = 'xset' ] && set -v
^-------------^ SC2268 (style):
Avoid x-prefix in comparisons as it no longer serves a purpose.
In download line 37:
[ "x${NODELETE+set}" = 'xset' ] && deleteblobs="false"
^----------------^ SC2268 (style):
Avoid x-prefix in comparisons as it no longer serves a purpose.
In download line 102:
NODELETE= "${script}"
^-- SC1007 (warning):
Remove space after = if trying to assign a value (for empty string,
use var='' ... ).
In download line 117:
NODELETE= resources/packages/"${package}"/download
^-- SC1007 (warning):
Remove space after = if trying to assign a value (for empty string,
use var='' ... ).
In download line 123:
NODELETE= resources/packages/"${package}"/download $@
^-- SC1007 (warning):
Remove space after = if trying to assign a value (for empty string,
use var='' ... ).
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
In download line 125:
resources/packages/"${package}"/download $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
In download line 131:
./.gitcheck clean
^---------------^ SC2317 (info):
Command appears to be unreachable. Check usage (or ignore if invoked
indirectly).
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix, running 'shellcheck -x build' produces the following
errors/warnings:
In modify line 23:
[ "x${DEBUG+set}" = 'xset' ] && set -v
^-------------^ SC2268 (style):
Avoid x-prefix in comparisons as it no longer serves a purpose.
In modify line 106:
resources/packages/"${package}"/modify/"${option}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
In modify line 113:
"${pkg_dir}"/modify/"${option}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix, running 'shellcheck -x build' produces the following
errors/warnings:
In build line 25:
[ "x${DEBUG+set}" = 'xset' ] && set -v
^-------------^ SC2268 (style): Avoid x-prefix in comparisons
as it no longer serves a purpose.
In build line 131:
resources/packages/"${package}"/"${task}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
In build line 138:
"${pkg_dir}"/"${task}" $@
^-- SC2068 (error):
Double quote array expansions to avoid re-splitting elements.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The arch, debian and ubuntu2005 packages names were respectively
checked on Parabola, PureOS byzantium and Trisquel 11.
The fedora35 and void packages were checked using the Fedora and Void
Linux online package databases.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The various scripts present in GNU Boot are very fragile, so it's a
good idea to have a pristine GNU Boot source code for making releases.
The issue is that 'git clean -dfx' doesn't remove existing git
repositories like coreboot/ grub/ etc, so we need additional code to
take care of that.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This commit corrects linelength (this should have no functional impact)
and adds exit codes
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
neox: wrote the commit message
This commit corrects linelength (this should have no functional impact)
and adds exit codes
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
neox: wrote the commit message
This commit corrects linelength (this should have no functional impact)
and adds exit codes
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
neox: wrote the commit message
This commit corrects linelength (this should have no functional impact)
and adds exit codes (sysexit.sh)
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
neox: wrote the commit message
This should contain no functional modifications.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
neox: wrote the commit message
Having an {arch,debian,fedora35,ubuntu2004,void} GNU Boot package
looked strange. Having a dependencies package instead makes more
sense.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The various build scripts are scattered around in multiple
places. This make it hard for contributors to understand what they
need to modify.
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So using that abstraction makes it easier to find where things are.
The scripts to install dependencies don't really fit the new structure
but for now we move them in to make sure that everything works
fine. This could be fixed later on and migrated to a single
dependencies packages by auto-detecting the distribution with
/etc/os-release.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So referring to packages instead of options makes it easier to
understand what the script is doing.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So referring to packages instead of options makes it easier to
understand what the script is doing.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So referring to packages instead of options makes it easier to
understand what the script is doing.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So referring to packages instead of options makes it easier to
understand what the script is doing.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
While that microcode is licensed under a permissive free software
license we don't have any corresponding source code, so until someone
produces that source code we need to treat it as nonfree software.
This issue was introduced by the commit the
f7c0fec698 ("coreboot/fam15h: update
code base, deblob, unset CONFIG_STM (see bug #64535)") and is also
present in GNU Boot 0.1 RC1.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The files were sorted with the sort command.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The configuration is based on the one in resources/coreboot/x60/.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
In coreboot this build option is used to download nonfree software so
they can be included later on in the builds.
It doesn't necessarily means that nonfree software ends up in the
images but it is way easier and safer to disable that than having to
audit precisely what happen for each computer and build configuration.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Full build tested on PureOS.
Tested-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This commit replaces the GPG fingerprint of neox, since it has been revoked
and replaced by a new one.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
The previous configuration was more complicated and required two steps each
time one tried to deploy the website. The new configuration makes use of
the ProxyJump feature to allow deploying in only one step.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNUtoo: fixed line over 80 characters.
Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
The information on who maintains GNU Boot is already in git.md, and
having duplicate information increase maintenance costs, here for no
known benefits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We add that information in "Send patches & contribute" as contributors
also need to understand the workflow, to know if their patch is being
accepted, if they need to do something special or not, need to wait,
etc.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The script isn't related to flashrom. The comment was already in the
first lbmk commit 89517ed6b9
("libreboot!") which was based on osboot and at the time it didn't
contain any flashrom related code either.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
When we already have the right untitled revision checked out, we don't
need to try to fetch its revision again. This also enable offline
builds in that case.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The 'TODO' link was pointing to an old page that is currently not up-to-date
so this commit replaces that link by another, to the Savannah forge main page.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The 'Bugs' link in the template was pointing to the old bug reporting page of
our previous project. This commit makes it pointing to the Savannah bug
reporting system used by GNU Boot.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Since we now have a very visible banner that indicates which pages
have been not been reviewed, and contribution instructions on how to
fix that, we are ready to publish the website.
Right now the deploy path of the website isn't configurable as this
would require some form of templating or processing of the markdown
files, so the website was simply moved from
gnu.org/software/gnuboot/test to gnu.org/software/gnuboot.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This uses a black background and white text which is the opposite of
the default theme. By using black and white, this also makes sure that
color blind people can still see the banner.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNU Boot might have to send some of the patches upstream so we can't
have a policy that applies to everything unless we also look into
upstream projects and GNU policies as well.
In addition we might need multiple ways to satisfy upstream
constraints to fit different needs / compromise from people wanting to
contribute anonymously.
And as the problem raised here is more global it is better to have a
more global answers and find ways that also work with upstream projects
as well.
Being a GNU project, GNU boot would also need to look into the GNU
policies on the topic and also try to see if for instance the FSF
copyright assignements could also be used in some cases to fix that
issue.
There are also other things worth looking into as well. For instance
Software Conservancy also handles copyright assignments and Asahi Lina
that contributes anonymously to the Linux kernel while satisfying
their very strict policy about tracking copyright ownership.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
It makes more sense to report test success / failure to the bug
mailing list because there are already similar reports in our bug
tracking system and also because this doesn't need to send any
patches.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Reported-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
In Parabola, the libreboot-utils and various u-boot packages needed
Libreboot as it was providing deblobbed source releases of Coreboot
and u-boot.
Because of that and also because I need also deblobbed u-boot for Guix
and Replicant, I ended up being involved in Libreboot.at and then GNU
Boot.
However the Replicant project also needs my help, so when joining
Libreboot.at and then GNU Boot I mostly wanted to have a project I
could rely on and be able to easily send patches to it.
So the idea was that once the project would be in a good shape I would
reconsider if I still needed to be a maintainer and try to see if new
contributors wanted to replace me (to have more than one maintainers)
and then go back sending patches from time to time as a regular
contributor to have more time for other projects.
This is why we used the word "interim" at the beginning: I was not
sure (and still am not sure) to want to stay maintainer of GNU Boot
forever. Adrien however has other plans.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
People probably want to have first a very short description of the
project and then its status before knowing the project history.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This commit addresses a problem in the wording of our project description
(in the Savannah description and in this README.md).
The project description was re-written from scratch by GNUtoo and this
commits import it unmodified from Savannah[1]. It is also released by
GNUtoo under the following license:
Copyright (c) 2023 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
[1]https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuboot
Reported-by: Patrick Georgi <oxygene>
Neox: import, commit message apart from the copyright information.
GNUtoo: copyright information, whitespace fixes.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
