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
This is useful for e.g. HP EliteBook 2560p.
In coreboot config, enable e.g. (for lbmk blobutil):
CONFIG_KBC1126_FW1="../../ec/hp2560p/ec.bin.fw1"
CONFIG_KBC1126_FW2="../../ec/hp2560p/ec.bin.fw2"
In resources/blobs/sources you would have these entries:
EC_url
EC_url_bkup
EC_hash
don't download it. keep it in lbmk.
libreboot moved to codeberg for git hosting,
and i didn't want to keep lugging around an
extra git repo just for one tiny project.
When using e.g. -p grub in build/boot/roms, it will
error out. This patch fixes that.
E.g.
./build boot roms t440pmrc_12mb -p grub
Seldom used feature and it was overlooked. Most people
won't use the option that triggered the error.
libre mrc on haswell is quite buggy for now, but works in
a limited fashion
this patch re-adds the old configs, but as _mrc for example
t440p_12mb_mrc instead of t440p_12mb
and t440p_12mb (without _mrc) still uses the libre mrc code
courtesy of Angel Pons from the coreboot project
this uses the following patch set from gerrit, as yet
unmerged (in coreboot master) on this date:
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/64198/5
logic for downloading mrc blobs has been deleted from
lbmk, as this is now completely obsolete (for haswell
boards)
if other platforms are added later that need mrc.bin,
then logic will be re-added again for that
some checks check for specific utils, which are
then used to indicate the existence of other utils,
which means that building them singularly, as is
currently done, may result in errors later if another
tool doesn't exist compiled yet
this is an obscure bug, fixed by this patch. more of a
workaround really. a dirty hack. when checking for any
of the coreboot utilities required, build all coreboot
utilities that are possibly required
the utilities are small enough that this does not add
much extra time to build, and in most cases, all of them
will be needed anyway
By making lbmk fully POSIX-compliant, it will be easier to port lbmk to
other systems implementing POSIX such as Alpine Linux and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Ferass 'Vitali64' EL HAFIDI <vitali64pmemail@protonmail.com>
Add U-Boot to the source release script's modules list so that it is
included in source release tarballs. Don't include the unused upstream
source and .git directories.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
Copy the resources/scripts/build/clean/crossgcc script and adapt it to
run "make distclean" on U-Boot build trees. Some build artifacts persist
after the run, so also run "git clean -fdx" if we can.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
U-Boot build dependencies are listed on their online documentation [1],
but the listed Debian packages also include test-only dependencies.
While installing dependencies, install the packages necessary to build
U-Boot, except for the test-only ones I could identify.
[1] https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build/gcc.html
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
U-Boot runtime configuration is done with a device-tree file, which is
built alongside the executable in the upstream build system, and must be
available to U-Boot at runtime.
This device-tree is normally not linked into the default "u-boot" ELF
file. So far we have been handling it by re-creating a "u-boot.elf" from
the raw binary parts by setting REMAKE_ELF, and using that as the
coreboot payload. Unfortunately, that fails to build for x86 boards,
more specificly the "coreboot" boards upstream.
It's also possible (but discouraged) to set OF_EMBED to embed the
device-tree file into the U-Boot itself, in which case we could use the
"u-boot" file as the payload on the "coreboot" boards. Add support for
using the "u-boot" file as the payload if "u-boot.elf" doesn't exist.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
The roms_helper script skips building crossgcc-i386 if its target
directory exists. Skip it for other architectures as well.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
Add the coreboot-built cross-architecture toolchains to the PATH so that
modules and payloads can use them. When building for a foreign-arch
board, also export CROSS_COMPILE pointing to the appropriate prefix.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
This re-applies commit a69855f7e4 ("Build 32-bit crossgcc for AArch64
as well") which was inexplicably reverted along with unrelated changes.
Mention in a comment that building crossgcc-arm is necessary for
AArch64.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
When overriding which payloads will be built with the -p command line
argument, the roms_helper script builds the Memtest86+ payload before
checking if it should be disabled. Move the build command after the
command line override.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
When overriding which payloads will be built with the -p command line
argument, the roms_helper script doesn't disable the U-Boot payload.
Disable it in this case.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
this is a hangover from pre-osboot-merge libreboot. the idea
was to distribute fsdg uboot archives
lbmk has uboot support, and releases will simply
include uboot in the main src archive like with everything else
the --nuke option in ifdtool will be used instead, to nuke
the ME regions in specific rom sets (and cbfstool will be
used to delete mrc.bin files from rom sets)
the new method being implemented is heavier on disk io, but
simplifies lbmk, and disk io could still be optimised in
the following ways:
* when copying roms from boards with ME in them, use
ifdtool --nuke to get filename.rom.new, and *move* (not copy)
filename.rom.new to the new destination (for use with tar)
* possibly modify ifdtool to make efficient use of mmap for
disk i/o; it currently loads entire roms into an allocated
buffer in memory
the intended use-case scenario was one in which vga rom initialisation
would be used, on desktop configurations, but without coreboot itself
handling vga rom initialisation, instead leaving that task to seabios
it was assumed that grub, when running on the bare metal with
build option "--with-platform=coreboot" would be able to display
like this, but it is not so when tested
in such setups (add-on gpu with grub payload), it is necessary to
extract the video bios and insert it into the coreboot rom, having
coreboot handle such execution. this is beyond the scope of lbmk,
in context of automated building, because we cannot reliably predict
things such as PCI IDs
do away with this build option entirely, for it does not serve the
intended purpose. it will be necessary to run PC GRUB instead (build
option --with-platform=i386-pc). PC GRUB can still read from CBFS,
and you could provide it as a floppy image file inside CBFS for
SeaBIOS to execute. in this setup, GRUB would function as originally
intended by the seabios_withgrub option; such a configuration is
referred to as "SeaGRUB" by the libreboot project, and experimentation
was done with it in the past, to no avail
it's better to keep things simple, in the libreboot project. simpler
for users, that is