the old code was specifing an absolute offset for
insertion of mrc.bin - cbfstool interprets anything
above 0x80000000 as top-aligned memory address in
x86, and anything below as an obsolute offset in
the flash, like with the old number
where a top-aligned address is provided to cbfstool,
the absolute position is calculated for the flash,
and cbfstool inserts it in the correct rom location
the benefit of this change is that the absolute
offset is now calculated automatically, which means
that the code will be correct even if the flash
size changes. for example, if 16MB flash is used
whereas 12MB is currently the default an support
haswell hardware
coreboot does not provide anything readably like
Kconfig, for extracting this value. it's baked
into the source code of coreboot, so you have to
find it. the correct location is hardcoded for
each platform, and always the same on each platform,
regardless of mainboard
top-down function order, with specific functions for
each type of blob. startup logic moved into main(),
also split into smaller functions
"write one program that does one thing well"
blobutil is like that, and has this added philosophy:
"write one function that does one thing well"
during the course of this re-factoring, several bugs
and issues were found, that are pre-existing. these
will be corrected in follow-up revisions
I added this in upstream to prevent people from accidentally flashing
roms without a payload resulting in a no boot situation, but in
libreboot lbmk handles the payload and thus this warning always comes
up. This has caused confusion and concern so just patch it out.
users reported it doesn't boot in recent releases, with the
february 2023 coreboot revision update
i have one in the lab, i'll just re-test it and fix whatever's
wrong for a future release
previously, "normal" initmode relied on the vgarom-based
seabios config, which enables option roms, but then lbmk
would insert pci-optionrom-exec 0 for vgarom, and 2 for normal
in libreboot, coreboot roms with "vgarom" in the filename do
pci option rom execution from coreboot, and "normal" roms
do execution from seabios(where seabios is the only payload
provided on normal setups)
this is because payloads like grub can also be used, on vgarom
setups, where coreboot must handle oprom execution
the deleted patch (in this commit) was written to fix an
issue theoretically; it hasn't been fully tested, and some
people have reported strange issues since this patch was
merged - there is no proof that this patch causes them, but
removing this patch is the correct thing to do regardless
Leah Rowe