The coreboot project is happy to announce our release for February 2024. Over the past three months, our contributors have focused on refining the coreboot codebase, generally prioritizing cleanup and quality enhancements. We extend our gratitude to all the contributors who have dedicated their time and expertise. Thank you for your invaluable contributions to this vital phase of maintenance and optimization.
The next release is scheduled for mid-May.
The previous release was the last to use the incrementing 4.xx release name scheme. For this and future releases, coreboot has switched to a Year.Month.Sub-version naming scheme. As such, the next release, scheduled for May of 2024 will be numbered 24.05, with the sub-version of 00 implied. If we need to do a fix or incremental release, we'll append the values .01, .02 and so on to the initial release value.
The coreboot project changed from master to main roughly 6 months ago, and has been keeping the two branches in sync since then to ease the transition. As of this release, we are getting rid of the master branch completely. Please make sure any scripts you're using that reference the 'master' branch have been switched to 'main'.
Input Output Remapping Table (IORT) represents the IO topology of an Arm based system.
Document number: ARM DEN 0049E.e, Sep 2022
This patch adds code to generate Processor Properties Topology Tables (PPTT) compliant to the ACPI 6.4 specification.
Background: We are currently working on mainboard code for qemu-sbsa and Neoverse N2. Both require a valid PPTT table. Patch was tested against the qemu-sbsa board.
This commit lays the groundwork for implementing the ACPI WDAT (Watchdog Action Table) table specification. The WDAT is a special ACPI table introduced by Microsoft that describes the watchdog for the OS.
Platforms that need to implement the WDAT table must describe the hardware watchdog management operations as described in the specification. See “Links to ACPI-Related Documents” (http://uefi.org/acpi) under the heading “Watchdog Action Table”.
To quote its repo[0]: Wuffs is a memory-safe programming language (and a standard library written in that language) for Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely. Wrangling includes parsing, decoding and encoding.
It compiles its library, written in its own language, to a C/C++ source file that can then be used independently without needing support for the language. That library is now imported to src/vendorcode/wuffs/.
This change modifies our linters to ignore that directory because it's supposed to contain the wuffs compiler's result verbatim.
Nigel Tao provided an initial wrapper around wuffs' jpeg decoder that implements our JPEG API. I further changed it a bit regarding data placement, dropped stuff from our API that wasn't ever used, or isn't used anymore, and generally made it fit coreboot a bit better. Features are Nigel's, bugs are mine.
This commit also adapts our jpeg fuzz test to work with the modified API. After limiting it to deal only with approximately screen sized inputs, it fuzzed for 25 hours CPU time without a single hang or crash. This is a notable improvement over running the test with our old decoder which crashes within a minute.
Finally, I tried the new parser with a pretty-much-random JPEG file I got from the internet, and it just showed it (once the resolution matched), which is also a notable improvement over the old decoder which is very particular about the subset of JPEG it supports.
In terms of code size, a QEmu build's ramstage increases from 128060 bytes decompressed (64121 bytes after LZMA) to 172304 bytes decompressed (82734 bytes after LZMA).
[0] https://github.com/google/wuffs
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+-----+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | # | Subject | +=====+=================================================================+ | 499 | edk2 boot fails with RESOURCE_ALLOCATION_TOP_DOWN enabled | +-----+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 496 | Missing malloc check in libpayload | +-----+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 484 | No USB keyboard support with secondary payloads | +-----+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 414 | X9SAE-V: No USB keyboard init on SeaBIOS using Radeon RX 6800XT | +-----+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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