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commit361e3646357504ef8843e3f85b35a1a966b88fe1[log] [tgz]
authorSridhar Siricilla <sridhar.siricilla@intel.com>Sun Oct 18 20:14:07 2020 +0530
committerFurquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>Wed Nov 18 01:26:44 2020 +0000
tree88c323733df9f243d970d98acf79c63d59e75eb7
parent0759346cd6c0dcfd300eeca216e0a2d2ed76a827 [diff]
soc/intel/common: Move CSE RW into new FMAP region to optimize boot time

CSE RW blob which will be used by coreboot to update CSE's RW partition,
is packed part of FW_MAIN_A and FW_MAIN_B. This will increase the size of
FW_MAIN_A and FW_MAIN_B. So, accordingly load and hash calculation of
FW_MAIN_A (or FW_MAIN_B) increases during verstage. It increases the boot
time by around 300ms.

The patch address the boot time by pulling CSE RW blob outside of
FW_MAIN_A and FW_MAIN_B. So, it creates new FMAP region within
RW_SECTION_A and RW_SECTION_B and adds CSE RW blob in the new regions
(ME_RW_A and ME_RW_B) as a CBFS file.

Boot Time Measurement details when CSE RW blob is added in the
ME_RW_A and ME_RW_B.
 --------------------------------------------------------
| Platform |   Old Boot Time      |   New Boot Time      |
 --------------------------------------------------------
| JSL      |  1.3s                |   1.06s              |
 --------------------------------------------------------
| TGL      |  1.63s               |   1.36s              |
 --------------------------------------------------------

Changes:
 1. Makefile change to accommodate CSE RW blob into  ME_RW_A/ME_RW_B
 2. Kconfig change to define CBFS name and default file name for RW blob
    metadata.
 3. CSE Lite Driver

BUG=b:169077783
TEST=Verified on JSL & TGL platforms

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Siricilla <sridhar.siricilla@intel.com>
Change-Id: If043c9cb99fb822b62633591bf9c5bd75dfe8349
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/46312
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Karthik Ramasubramanian <kramasub@google.com>
3 files changed
tree: 88c323733df9f243d970d98acf79c63d59e75eb7
  1. 3rdparty/
  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.