2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli	585f4d359a	coreboot/i945 Thinkpads: replace dd commands with INTEL_ADD_TOP_SWAP_BOOTBLOCK ... 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>	2023-12-06 17:32:36 +01:00
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli	857afa42a8	Switch to packages structure. ... 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>	2023-12-06 17:14:14 +01:00

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