The creation of what became grub_memdisk.cfg can be tracked back to
the grub.cfg that I published in 2013 in my build-makefiles repository
and that is available in the very first Libreboot release in
build-makefiles/grub/memdisk/boot/grub/grub.cfg.
It was then modified by leah in 2014 who removed most of my work from
it. Details can be seen in the following repository:
[1]https://notabug.org/libreboot/obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes
It was then picked up as-is in the osbmk repository and then the lbmk
repository that GNU Boot also has the history of.
Since we now have proper copyright history in all the files in
resources/grub/config we can now safely remove the AUTHORS file.
As for the COPYING file, we already have copyright headers and we
already ship a copy of the GPLv3 in our repository.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The GNU Boot project merged several repositories in its main git
repository, each with their separate histories. So far we have:
- the documentation/website that came from Libreboot
- the documentation/website pictures that also came from Libreboot
- the build system that also came from Libreboot (it's called lbmk there).
- some website autotools build system that was made from scratch by me.
The grub.cfg we use comes from the build system repository (lbmk). I
extracted the copyrights from the git commits of this repository.
However the first commit of lbmk (which we also have in our main GNU
Boot repository) is the following:
commit 89517ed6b9
Author: [Leah Rowe]
Date: [2021]
libreboot!
this is forked from the "libre" branch in osboot, which is itself a libre,
deblobbed fork of osboot, a blobbed up fork of libreboot
libreboot needed to be purged clean. this is the new libreboot development
repository. the old one has been abandoned
So I had to continue and look at the libre branch of osboot and
extract the copyrights from its commits as well.
Then I downloaded osbmk (https://notabug.org/osboot/osbmk) and
continued to look.
And here too we need to go beyond the first commit again, because
osbmk is based on 'Libreboot 20160907':
commit df76c3eb63dd8f4979d78ca262218eedb93512ed
Author: [Leah Rowe]
Date: [2020]
Fork Libreboot 20160907 build system. Large parts have been re-written.
This build system builds ROMs for X230, but they are so far untested.
Use at your own risk!
I still need to write documentation and do testing.
SOON: T60 with ATI GPU
We can find Libreboot 20160907 in
https://notabug.org/libreboot/obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes
And then we end up with this commit:
commit cee90ae0fce6d6aee8d78969b60c952c8890abd6
Author: [Leah Rowe]
Date: [2014]
Libreboot release 6 beta 1.
Before that Libreboot only had tarball releases and the very first
tarball release was based on build scripts/Makefiles made by me, and
the git repository having the GRUB configuration can be found in
Libreboot 20131212 in X60/build-makefiles.
commit 80c37b9093be8325bf9ca8271ae4c6dba8fe81d6
Author: [GNUtoo]
Date: [2013]
Initial commit.
For now we only build the grub payload.
Signed-off-by: [GNUtoo]
And the intial grub.cfg was made by hand by me.
While I was at it I also updated the name/email combination in the
copyright header for the ones currently used.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The "Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]" GRUB
entry tries to load grub configuration files from the hard disk or SSD
partitions. It tries various files in /boot, /grub, /grub2,
/boot/grub, /boot/grub2.
For consistency we at least need to make it search for the
gnuboot_grub.cfg in these directories as well. Since this is GNU Boot,
the gnuboot_grub.cfg takes precedence over files made for other boot
software distributions.
For libreboot_grub.cfg, it was not replaced because it is still
mentioned in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNUtoo: reworked code and commit message.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
with this change, it's unlikely we'll hit errors again. previously,
some projects used were calling "python" which in context was
python3, but on some setups, the user only has python2 and python3
but no symlink for "python" (which if exists, we assumed linked to
python3)
now it's unambiguous. docs/build/ can probably be updated now, as
a result of this change, to remove the advice about that
hardcode everything. in practise, the new logic will work just the same in
almost all cases, for most people, but it works around performance issues in
grub. cleanup of grub.cfg will be done in the next commit
On many boards, grub takes a very long time to
search for a grub.cfg file on the disk.
The problem is the search_grub function which
takes a long time to complete.
I (vitali64) studied the grub.cfg from 2016 and
the grub.cfg from 2021 and optimized the
grub.cfg. It should be faster now.
tianocore is a liability for the libreboot project. it's a bloated mess, and
unreliable, broken on many boards, and basically impossible to audit.
i don't trust tianocore, so i'm removing it.
There is already a separate menuentry for USB, and most people don't boot their
installed system from USB anyway. This will result in faster boot speeds.
mitigate missing characters in unifont for border/arrow characters. this saves
space because now it is no longer necessary to add a custom font
the background added has the libreboot logo on it, and it's 10kb in size unlike
the old gnulove background that was hundreds of KB
this is a compromise. i was going to do 30 for desktops, 1 for laptops.
however, some laptop users complain about the 1 second timeout being too fast.
10 seconds should just about please everyone.
this is forked from the "libre" branch in osboot, which is itself a libre,
deblobbed fork of osboot, a blobbed up fork of libreboot
libreboot needed to be purged clean. this is the new libreboot development
repository. the old one has been abandoned
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
Leah Rowe