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commitfe338e2319f40a22f1c64aef3df95e015ab8b90b[log] [tgz]
authorAaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>Mon Nov 18 12:35:21 2019 -0700
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>Wed Nov 20 13:27:44 2019 +0000
treeae58f62632c6df74719b1c6ae13607c90d0805de
parentaeb652a4a04226f467eb8e850b2096d772c6e31e [diff]
cbfs: switch to region_device for location APIs

Drop struct cbfs_props and replace with struct region_device object.
The goal of the cbfs locator APIs are to determine the correct region
device to find the cbfs files. Therefore, start directly using struct
region_device in the cbfs location paths. Update the users of the API
and leverage the default boot region device implementation for
apollolake.

Change-Id: I0158a095cc64c9900d8738f8ffd45ae4040575ea
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36939
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
5 files changed
tree: ae58f62632c6df74719b1c6ae13607c90d0805de
  1. 3rdparty/
  2. configs/
  3. Documentation/
  4. LICENSES/
  5. payloads/
  6. src/
  7. util/
  8. .checkpatch.conf
  9. .clang-format
  10. .editorconfig
  11. .gitignore
  12. .gitmodules
  13. .gitreview
  14. AUTHORS
  15. COPYING
  16. gnat.adc
  17. MAINTAINERS
  18. Makefile
  19. Makefile.inc
  20. README.md
  21. 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.