soc/intel/common: Add support for populating meminit data

This change adds support for a common block memory driver that can be
used for performing the required operations to read SPD data for
different memory channel DIMMs. This data can then be used by the SoC
code to populate different memory related UPDs.

Most recent Intel platforms follow a similar pattern for configuring
FSP-M UPDs for initializing memory. These platforms use one of the
following topologies:
1. Memory down
2. DIMM modules
3. Mixed

Thus, SPD data is either obtained from CBFS (for memory down topology)
or from on-module EEPROM (for DIMM modules). This SPD data read from
CBFS or EEPROM is then passed into FSP-M using SPD UPDs for different
channels/DIMMs as per the memory organization.

Similarly, DQ/DQS configuration is accepted from mainboard and passed
into FSP-M using UPDs as per the FSP-M/MRC organization of memory
channels.

Different memory technologies on a platform support physical channels
of different widths. Since the data bus width is fixed for a platform,
the number of physical channels is determined by data bus width /
physical channel width. The number of physical channels are different
depending upon the size of physical channel supported by the memory
technology. FSP-M for a platform uses the same set of UPDs for
different memory technologies and aims at providing maximum
flexibility. Thus, the platform code needs to format mainboard inputs
for DQ, DQS and SPD into the UPDs appropriately as per the memory
technology used by the board.

Example: DDR4 on TGL supports 2 physical channels each 64-bit
wide. However, FSP-M UPDs assume channels 16-bit wide. Thus, FSP-M
provides 16 UPDs for SPDs (considering 2 DIMMs per channel and 8
channels with each channel 16-bit wide). Hence, for DDR4, only the SPD
UPDs for MRC channel 0 and 4 are supposed to be used.

This common driver allows the SoC to define the attributes of the
platform:
1. DIMMS_PER_CHANNEL: Maximum DIMMs that are supported per channel by
any memory technology on the platform
2. DATA_BUS_WIDTH: Width of the data bus.
3. MRC_CHANNEL_WIDTH: Width of the channel as used by the MRC to
define UPDs.

In addition to this, the SoC can define different attributes of each
memory technology supported by the platform using `struct
soc_mem_cfg`:
1. Number of physical channels
2. Physical channel to MRC channel mapping
3. Masks for memory down topologies

Using the above information about different memory technologies
supported by the platform and the mainboard configuration for SPD,
the common block memory driver reads SPD data and provides pointers to
this data for each dimm within each channel back to the SoC code. SoC
code can then use this information to configure FSP-M UPDs
accordingly. In addition to that, the common block driver also returns
information about how the channels are populated so that the SoC code
can use this information to expose DQ/DQS information in FSP-M UPDs.

This driver aims at minimizing the effort required for supporting
different memory technologies on any new Intel SoC by reducing per-SoC
effort to a table of configurations rather than having to implement
similar logic for each SoC.

BUG=b:172978729

Change-Id: I256747f0ffc49fb326cd8bc54a6a7b493af139c0
Signed-off-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/49040
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: EricR Lai <ericr_lai@compal.corp-partner.google.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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tree: 442530c9f30c04b1792731414587852aa76a8c5e
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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:

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  • ncurses (for make menuconfig and make nconfig)
  • flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)

Building coreboot

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