vc/google/chromeos: Deprecate support for SAR tables in VPD

SAR table in VPD has been deprecated for Chrome OS platforms for > 1
year now. All new Chrome OS platforms have switched to using SAR
tables from CBFS.

This change drops the support for SAR table in VPD from coreboot to
align with the factory changes. `get_wifi_sar_limits()` is thus
updated to look for SAR file in CBFS only.

Anyone building ToT coreboot for an already released Chrome OS
platform with SAR table in VPD will have to extract the "wifi_sar" key
from VPD and add it as a file to CBFS using following steps:

 - On DUT, read SAR value using `vpd -i RO_VPD -g wifi_sar`
 - In coreboot repo, generate CBFS SAR file using:
   `echo ${SAR_STRING} > site-local/${BOARD}-sar.hex`
 - Add to site-local/Kconfig:
   ```
   config WIFI_SAR_CBFS_FILEPATH
     string
     default "site-local/${BOARD}-sar.hex"
   ```

BUG=b:173465272

Change-Id: I21d190dcc9f3554fab6e21b4498e7588a32bb1f0
Signed-off-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/51483
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org>
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  2. configs/
  3. Documentation/
  4. LICENSES/
  5. payloads/
  6. src/
  7. tests/
  8. util/
  9. .checkpatch.conf
  10. .clang-format
  11. .editorconfig
  12. .gitignore
  13. .gitmodules
  14. .gitreview
  15. AUTHORS
  16. COPYING
  17. gnat.adc
  18. MAINTAINERS
  19. Makefile
  20. Makefile.inc
  21. README.md
  22. toolchain.inc
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

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.