We don't need the entire emulator, but we will be using
a specific part: src/mips/openbios
third_party/uC-sdk submodule is included, because it
contains the necessary header files when building open bios.
I will be adding Sony Playstation support to Canoeboot,
alongside a new emulator project to be announced soon.
Yes, RYF playstation is possible. A real playstation can
run this BIOS. Then disable the copy protection from the
CD controller by installing a modchip (PsNee runs free
modchip firmware), and picostation is also libre if you want
something to boot software from SD card instead of CD-R.
Very hackable 90s games console. Libre SDKs also exist that
are quite powerful, so you can actually use this machine while
avoiding all proprietary software of any kind.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
don't use the macports mirror, because it's not certain
whether those tarballs will always be there. use the
coreboot one as a backup instead, and nasm.us as main
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
remove nvme support from the "default" grub tree
now there are three trees:
* default: no xhci or nvme patches
* nvme: contains nvme support
* xhci: contains xhci and nvme support
this is in case a bug like lbmk issue #216 ever occurs
again, as referenced before during lbmk audit 5
there is no indication that the nvme patch causes any
issues, but after previous experience i want to be sure
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
support redundant downloads, and enable inclusion of these
tarballs inside release archives, for offline builds.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
when we download coreboot, we currently don't have a way to
download crossgcc tarballs, so we rely on coreboot to do it,
which means running the coreboot build system to do it; which
means we don't get them in release archives, unless we add
very hacky logic (which did exist and was removed).
the problem with coreboot's build system is that it does not
define backup links for each given tarball, instead relying
on gnu.org exclusively, which seems OK at first because the
gnu.org links actually return an HTTP 302 response leading
to a random mirror, HOWEVER:
the gnu.org 302 redirect often fails, and the download fails,
causing an error. a mitigation for this has been to patch the
coreboot build system to download directly from a single mirror
that is reliable (in our case mirrorservice.org).
while this mitigation mostly works, it's not redundant; the
kent mirror is occasionally down too, and again we still have
the problem of not being able to cleanly provide crossgcc
tarballs inside release archives.
do it in config/submodules, like so:
module.list shall say the relative path of a given file,
once downloaded, relative to the given source tree.
module.cfg shall be re-used, in the same way as for git
submodules, but:
subfile="url"
subfile_bkup="backup url"
do this, instead of:
subrepo="url"
subrepo_bkup="backup url"
example entries in module.list:
util/crossgcc/tarballs/binutils-2.41.tar.xz
util/crossgcc/tarballs/gcc-13.2.0.tar.xz
util/crossgcc/tarballs/gmp-6.3.0.tar.xz
util/crossgcc/tarballs/mpc-1.3.1.tar.gz
util/crossgcc/tarballs/mpfr-4.2.1.tar.xz
util/crossgcc/tarballs/nasm-2.16.01.tar.bz2
util/crossgcc/tarballs/R06_28_23.tar.gz
the "subrev" variable (in module.cfg) has been renamed
to "subhash", so that this makes sense, and that name is
common to both subfile/subrepo.
the download logic from the vendor scripts has been re-used
for this purpose, and it verifies files using sha512sum.
therefore:
when specifying subrepo(git submodule), subhash will still
be a sha1 checksum, but:
when specifying subfile(file, e.g. tarball), subhash will
be a sha512 checksum
the logic for both (subrepo and subfile) is unified, and
has this rule:
subrepo* and subfile* must never *both* be declared.
the actual configuration of coreboot crossgcc tarballs
will be done in a follow-up commit. this commit simply
modifies the code to accomodate this.
over time, this feature could be used for many other files
within source trees, and could perhaps be expanded to allow
extracting source tarballs in leiu of git repositories, but
the latter is not yet required and thus not implemented.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
again: the "depend" variable must never be used for subprojects
that point to a subdirectory of the main project, because there's
no clean way of handling this in case of error conditions.
make it a submodule under config/submodules/. this is for the
documentation, including static site generator documentation,
and image files (photos).
as of this revision, there are now only those "depend" projects
defined in config/git/, where the destination directory of the
subject is not a subdirectory of the main project, so:
in a subsequest revision, i will mitigate an existing bug whereby
failure of the dependency project leaves the main one still
intact, breaking builds; this revision enables that to be done.
from now on, subproject-to-subdirectory-of-main-project will
be avoided in config/git/; config/submodules/ will be used.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
same as the previous patch, we must no longer use "define"
variables in config/git/ when the path is a subdirectory of
a given project, because it means that the download can only
happen after the main one, and currently if that fails, the
download of the main repo would remain intact, breaking future
builds in ways that we can't control - to be clear, it could
be controlled, but with added code complexity in the build
system, so:
put it in config/submodules/
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
don't define it as a "depend" variable in config/git/,
because it means putting the files in a subdirectory of
an existing project was was already then downloaded, and
that means it can't be downloaded first; if the download
of it fails, the old download is left intact.
this bug isn't currently fixed in the build system, at all,
so this and other patches are being made to mitigate it.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The xHCI patches were removed because they caused issues
on Sandybridge-based Dell Latitude laptops. See:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216
The issue was not reported elsewhere, but we still don't
need xHCI support in Canoeboot's GRUB because none of the
available coreboot targets have xHCI support. However, we
may want it in the future and it helps to keep Canoeboot
in sync with Libreboot (this patch is adapted from lbmk).
Each given coreboot target can say which GRUB tree to use
by setting this in target.cfg:
grubtree="xhci"
In the above example, the "xhci" tree would be used. Some
generic GRUB config has been moved to config/data/grub/
and config/grub/ now looks like config/coreboot/ - also,
the grub.cfg file (named "payload" in each tree) is copied
to the GRUB source tree as ".config", then added to GRUB's
memdisk in the same way, as grub.cfg.
Several other design changes had to be made because of this:
* grub.cfg in memdisk no longer automatically jumps to one
in CBFS, but now shows a menuentry for it if available
* Certain commands in script/trees are disabled for GRUB,
such as *config make commands.
* gnulib is now defined in config/submodule/grub/, instead
of config/git/grub - and this mitigates an existing bug
where downloading gnulib first would make grub no longer
possible to download in lbmk.
There is another reason for merging this design change from
lbmk, and that reasoning also applies to lbmk. Specifically:
This change will enable per-board GRUB optimisation in the
future. For example, we hardcode what partitions and LVMs
GRUB scans because * is slow on ICH7-based machines, due
to GRUB's design. On other machines, * is reasonably fast,
for automatically enumerating the list of devices for boot.
Use of * (and other wildcards) could enable our GRUB payload
to automatically boot more distros, with minimal fuss. This
can be done at a later date, in subsequent revisions.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this is using the same functionality that was added a few
commits ago, to override the use of "git submodule update"
each coreboot submodule has two repositories defined, with
the second one kicking in if the mail one fails upon cloning.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
whitelist what modules are downloaded, by adding
module.list files in the corresponding directories
under config/submodule/, per each coreboot tree.
this is making use of functionality added in the
previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
firstly, memtest86+ is currently not cross compiled and
relies on 64-bit headers (x86_64 only). a 32-bit distro
is unlikely to be able to build 64-bit binaries.
secondly: vboot throws a build error due to -Werror when
building on 32-bit hosts. we rely on vboot code to build
cbfstool, so turn off -Werror on vboot
that's all. 32-bit hosts are not recommended; it is assumed
that you are building on an x86_64 host. work will go into
the build system at a later date to make it more portable,
by cross compiling everything, but this should fix 32-bit
for now.
there are some x60/t60 users who still want to build roms,
so let's allow them that possibility.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The E6400 uses a 100 MHz reference clock on DPLL_REF_SSCLK, whereas
libgfxinit assumed that the reference was always 96 MHz. The frequency
difference caused by a 100 MHz reference with PLL config values
calculated assuming a 96 MHz reference were not significant enough to
cause noticable issues with the more common 1280 x 800 panels, but are
enough to matter for the 1440 x 900 panels which use a higher pixel
clock. This only affected the pre-OS graphics environment provided by
libgfxinit, as Linux drivers would determine the reference clock
frequency based on data in the VBT.
Fix this by making the reference clock frequency in libgfxinit
configurable for GM45 based on a new coreboot Kconfig, which is set to
100 MHz for the E6400.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Chin <nic.c3.14@gmail.com>
for single-tree project (e.g. flashprog):
config/submodule/PROJECT/MODNAME/patches
for multi-tree project (e.g. coreboot):
config/submodule/PROJECT/TREE/MODNAME/patches
MODNAME is e.g.:
3rdparty/vboot directory in coreboot: would become vboot
(the submodule codepath is filtered to up to the final slash)
another example:
submodire src dir 3rdparty/foo/bar
MODNAME would be "bar"
Add whatever patches you like to a given submodule.
An example patch is included in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Leah Rowe