with neutered ME, fan control fails. while there are
ways to mitigate it, many users will not, and will
likely see their system overheat, which is very
dangerous.
this bug (failed fan control on neutered ME) only
affects arrandale machines such as lenovo x201.
the newer machines are not affected by this.
other arrandale machines will probably not be added
to libreboot because of this, or they will be subject
to further testing.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
This is of Broadwell platform, one generation above Haswell.
Of note: this uses HP Sure Start. Although the flash is 16MB,
our CBFS section (and IFD configuration) assumes 12MB flash,
so the final 4MB will be left unflashed on installation,
after blanking the private flash. The coreboot documents have
more information about this.
Some minor design changes in lbmk were made, to accomodate
this port:
Support for extracting refcode binaries added (pulled from
Google recovery images). The refcode file is an ELF that
initialises the MRC and the PCH. It is also responsible for
enabling or disabling the Intel GbE device, where Google
does not enable it, but lbmk modifies it per the instructions
on the coreboot documentation, so as to enable Intel GbE.
Google's recovery image stores the refcode as a stage file,
but coreboot changed the format (for CBFS files) after 4.13
so coreboot 4.13's cbfstool is used to extract refcode. This
realisation made me also change the script logic to use a
cbfstool and ifdtool version matching the coreboot tree, for
all parts of lbmk, whereas lbmk previously used only the
default tree for cbfstool/ifdtool, on insertion and deletion
of vendor files - it was 81dc20e744 that broke extraction of
refcode on google's recovery images, where google used an older
version of cbfstool to insert the files in their coreboot ROMs.
A further backported patch has been added, copying coreboot
revision f22f408956 which is a build fix from Nico Huber.
Iru Cai submitted an ACPI bugfix after the revision lbmk
currently uses, for coreboot/default, and this fix is
needed for rebooting to work on Linux 6.1 or higher. This
patch has been backported to lbmk, while it still uses the
same October 2023 revision of coreboot.
Broadwell MRC is inserted at the same offset as Haswell,
so I didn't need to tweak that.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
while seemingly pedantic, this does actually make code
easier to read. mostly just switching to shorthand for
variable names, where no expansions or patterns are used
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
don't handle "romtype" at all, in board target.cfg files
add /dev/null as pike2008 rom on amd boards. this serves
the same purpose, adding them as empty vga roms, to add
an empty rom in cbfs. pike2008 cards cause seabios to hang,
when their oproms are executed, so we insert a fake rom
on i945 thinkpads, use the coreboot config option:
CONFIG_INTEL_ADD_TOP_SWAP_BOOTBLOCK
when set, this enables the same bootblock copy, for use
with bucts. these two cases, namely pike2008 roms and
i945 bootblock copies, no longer need to be handled in code
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
lbmk didn't quote certain arguments in commands, or
used ! -z instead of -n, things like that. simple fixes.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
most of these are probably redundant, and will never
be called, but lbmk needs to be as safe as possible
under fault conditions. fail early, fail hard.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
in cases where lbmk must always return from a function,
there are some cases where it relies on non-zero exit
status, which in practise is always the case, but may
change in the future if the relevant part is modified
e.g. do_something && return 0
the proper form is:
do_something
return 0
also do this for unconditional exits
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
note: me6_update_parser needs to be written, similar
to me7_update_parser, to generate the partition
tables within intel me6 on lenovo bios updates.
the current logic in lbmk goes like this:
mkdir -p vendorfiles/cache/
and save your factory dump as:
vendorfiles/cache/x201_factory.rom
the build system has been modified, in such a way
as to support extracting me.bin (which is the full
one) and then neutering from this.
this is done automatically, if the file is present,
but you must first insert that file there, which means
you'll need a dump of the original boot flash on your
thinkpad x201
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
in some cases, use of x_ or xx_ can be error-prone,
due to the way $@ is handled; commands requiring
quotes, or with funny file names as arguments such
as spaces in the file name, or other special
characters, can make the x/xx functions break.
in those cases, where x/xx must not be used, the
commands use || err instead
in other cases, use of x/xx is superfluous, and has
been removed in some commands.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
as opposed to the current 3-level structure.
recent build system simplifications have enabled
this change, thus:
./build fw coreboot -> ./build roms
./build fw grub -> ./build grub
./build fw serprog -> ./build serprog
./update project release -> ./update release
./update project trees -> ./update trees
./update vendor download -> ./vendor download
./update vendor inject -> ./vendor inject
alper criticised that the commands were too long,
so i made them shorter!
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Leah Rowe