Leah Rowe
11a821637d
Actually, it's 2 commits after 2.12, because there was a
patch added afterwards, fixing a build issue on Gentoo.
These changes are present in GRUB 2.12, relative to the
revision that we previously used on lbmk:
* b835601c7 build: Include grub-core/extra_deps.lst in dist
* 8961305b4 Bump version to 2.13
* 5ca9db22e Release 2.12
* 477a0dbd5 efi: Add support for reproducible builds
* dcc1af5d6 efi: Generate stack protector canary at build time if urandom is available
* e424e945c efi: Initialize canary to non-zero value
* 7c8ae7dcb gfxmenu/gui_image: Fix double free of bitmap
* 63fc253fc commands/acpi: Fix calculation of ACPI tables addresses when processing RSDT and XSDT
* f20123072 libnvpair: Support prefixed nvlist symbol names as found on NetBSD
* a13df3d15 bootstrap: Don't check gettext version
* 6d2aa7ee0 kern/mm: Use %x and cast for displaying sizeof()
* b3d49a697 configure: Add RPATH for freetype on NetBSD
* 52dbf66ea configure: Add *BSD font paths
* 2d6a89980 autogen: Accept python3.10 as a python alternative
* 3d4cb5a43 build: Rename HAVE_LIBZFS to USE_LIBZFS
* e4dbe5cfa gnulib: Tolerate always_inline attribute being ignored
* 31e47cfe2 util/editenv: Don't use %m formatter
* f5905f656 osdep/bsd/hostdisk: Fix NetBSD compilation
* cb1824a87 osdep/generic/blocklist: Fix compilation
* 2f3faf02c disk/diskfilter: Remove unused variable
* 3815acc57 build: Tolerate unused-but-set in generated lexer/bison files
* c129e44e7 loader/i386/bsdXX: Fix loading after unaligned module
* 89fbe0cac grub-core/Makefile.am: Make path to extra_deps.lst relative to $(top_srcdir)/grub-core
* 353beb80c util/grub-install: Move platdir path canonicalization after files were copied to grubdir
* f18a899ab util/grub-mkstandalone: Ensure deterministic tar file creation by sorting contents
* ed74bc376 util/grub-mkstandalone: Ensure stable timestamps for generated images
* 069cc46c9 net/http: Fix gcc-13 errors relating to type signedness
* e7a831963 templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions with warning
* 3f9eace2d util/grub-install: Delay copying files to {grubdir,platdir} after install_device was validated
* e60015f57 efi: Set shim_lock_enabled even if validation is disabled
* e35683317 docs: Improve bli module documentation
* 57059ccb6 bli: Add explicit dependency on the part_gpt module
* 154dcb1ae build: Allow explicit module dependencies
* 17c68472d kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Display upper_mem_limit when debugging
* 5f8e091b6 kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Fix a comment
* dc569b077 kern/ieee1275/ieee1275: Display successful memory claims when debugging
* 0ac3d938a loader/powerpc/ieee1275: Use new allocation function for kernel and initrd
* 2a9a8518e kern/ieee1275/cmain/ppc64: Introduce flags to identify KVM and PowerVM
* 679691a13 kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Rename regions_claim() to grub_regions_claim()
* d49e86db2 kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Add support for alignment requirements
* fe5d5e857 kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Return allocated address using context
* ea2c93484 kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Decide by request whether to initialize region
* 0bb59fa9a kern/ieee1275/init/ppc64: Introduce a request for regions_claim()
* aa7c13226 fs/xfs: Add large extent counters incompat feature support
Most notable in the above log, that are beneficial to Libreboot
users, are:
aa7c13226 which improves XFS support (large extents), which is default
now on many setups.
ed74bc376 which introduces more stable timestamp generation when using
grub-mkstandalone. this is what lbmk uses to generate grub.elf, whereas
grub previously only implemented this fix on mkimage which we don't use
f18a899ab which ensures deterministic (reproducible) tar file creation
by sorting contents (file names / directories). this is done by sorting
the entries
f5905f656 which improves grub build system reliability on netbsd and
openbsd systems - useful for us because an ambition of lbmk is to port
the build system to run on bsd systems, and we will still want grub -
several other of the changes here are beneficial for BSD aswell, all
or most of them by Vladimir Serbinenko
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
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README.md
Libreboot
Find libreboot documentation at https://libreboot.org/
The libreboot project provides
libre boot
firmware that initializes the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU,
peripherals) on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM targets, which
then starts a bootloader for your operating system. Linux/BSD are
well-supported. It replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Help is available
via #libreboot IRC
on Libera IRC.
Why use Libreboot?
Why should you use libreboot?
Libreboot gives you freedoms that you otherwise can't get with most other boot firmware. It's extremely powerful and configurable for many use cases.
You have rights. The right to privacy, freedom of thought, freedom of speech and the right to read. In this context, Libreboot gives you these rights. Your freedom matters. Right to repair matters. Many people use proprietary (non-libre) boot firmware, even if they use a libre OS. Proprietary firmware often contains backdoors (more info on the FAQ), and it and can be buggy. The libreboot project was founded in December 2013, with the express purpose of making coreboot firmware accessible for non-technical users.
The libreboot project uses coreboot for hardware
initialisation.
Coreboot is notoriously difficult to install for most non-technical users; it
handles only basic initialization and jumps to a separate
payload program (e.g.
GRUB,
Tianocore), which must also be configured.
The libreboot software solves this problem; it is a coreboot distribution with
an automated build system (named lbmk) that builds complete ROM images, for
more robust installation. Documentation is provided.
How does Libreboot differ from coreboot?
In the same way that Debian is a GNU+Linux distribution, libreboot is
a coreboot distribution. If you want to build a ROM image from scratch, you
otherwise have to perform expert-level configuration of coreboot, GRUB and
whatever other software you need, to prepare the ROM image. With libreboot,
you can literally download from Git or a source archive, and run make, and it
will build entire ROM images. An automated build system, named lbmk
(Libreboot MaKe), builds these ROM images automatically, without any user input
or intervention required. Configuration has already been performed in advance.
If you were to build regular coreboot, without using libreboot's automated build system, it would require a lot more intervention and decent technical knowledge to produce a working configuration.
Regular binary releases of libreboot provide these
ROM images pre-compiled, and you can simply install them, with no special
knowledge or skill except the ability to follow installation instructions
and run commands BSD/Linux.
Project goals
- Support as much hardware as possible! Libreboot aims to eventually have maintainers for every board supported by coreboot, at every point in time.
- Make coreboot easy to use. Coreboot is notoriously difficult to install, due to an overall lack of user-focused documentation and support. Most people will simply give up before attempting to install coreboot. Libreboot's automated build system and user-friendly installation instructions solves this problem.
Libreboot attempts to bridge this divide by providing a build system automating much of the coreboot image creation and customization. Secondly, the project produces documentation aimed at non-technical users. Thirdly, the project attempts to provide excellent user support via IRC.
Libreboot already comes with a payload (GRUB), flashrom and other needed parts. Everything is fully integrated, in a way where most of the complicated steps that are otherwise required, are instead done for the user in advance.
You can download ROM images for your libreboot system and install them without having to build anything from source. If, however, you are interested in building your own image, the build system makes it relatively easy to do so.
Not a coreboot fork!
Libreboot is not a fork of coreboot. Every so often, the project re-bases on the latest version of coreboot, with the number of custom patches in use minimized. Tested, stable (static) releases are then provided in Libreboot, based on specific coreboot revisions.
How to help
You can check bugs listed on the bug tracker.
If you spot a bug and have a fix, the website has instructions for how to send patches, and you can also report it. Also, this entire website is written in Markdown and hosted in a separate repository where you can send patches.
Any and all development discussion and user support are all done on the IRC channel. More information is on https://libreboot.org/contact.html.
LICENSE FOR THIS README
It's just a README file. This README file is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero license, version 1.0 of the license, which you can read here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt