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% Libreboot 20140903 release
% Leah Rowe
% 3 September 2014
Revisions for r20140903 (6th beta) (3rd September 2014)
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- Added modified builddeb\* scripts for Parabola GNU+Linux-libre:
buildpac, buildpac-flashrom, buildpac-bucts (courtesy of Noah
Vesely)
- Documentation: updated all relevant areas to mention use of
buildpac\* scripts for Parabola users.
- Documentation: added information showing how to enable or disable
bluetooth on the X60
- MacBook1,1 tested! See **hardware/\#macbook11**
- Documentation: fixed typo in \#get\_edid\_panelname (get-edit
changed to get-edid)
- Documentation: added images/x60\_lcd\_change/ (pics only for now)
- Added gcry\_serpent and gcry\_whirlpool to the GRUB module list in
the 'build' script (for luks users)
- **Libreboot is now based on a new coreboot version from August 23rd,
2014:\
Merged commits (relates to boards that were already supported in
libreboot):**
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6697/>
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6698/> (merged already)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6699/> (merged already)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6696/> (merged already)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6695/> (merged already)
- **<http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5927/> (merged already)**
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6717/> (merged already)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6718/> (merged already)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6723/> (merged already)
(text-mode patch, might enable memtest. macbook21)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6732/> (MERGED) (remove useless
ps/2 keyboard delay from macbook21. already merged)
- These were also merged in coreboot (relates to boards that libreboot
already supported):
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5320/> (merged)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5321/> (merged)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5323/> (merged)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6693/> (merged)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6694/> (merged)
- <http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5324/> (merged)
- Documentation: removed the section about tft\_brightness on X60 (new
code makes it obsolete)
- Removed all patches from resources/libreboot/patch/ and added new
patch: 0000\_t60\_textmode.git.diff
- Updated getcb script and DEBLOB script.
- Updated configuration files under resources/libreboot/config/ to
accomodate new coreboot version.
- Removed grub\_serial\*.cfg and libreboot\_serial\*.rom, all
configs/rom files are now unified (containing same configuration as
serial rom files from before).
- Documentation: updated \#rom to reflect the above.
- Updated GRUB to new version from August 14th, 2014.
- Unified all grub configurations for all systems to a single grub.cfg
under resources/grub/config/
- Updated flashrom to new version from August 20th, 2014
- Added getseabios and builddeps-seabios (builddeps and getall were
also updated)
- Added instructions to 'buildrom-withgrub' to include
bios.bin.elf and vgaroms/vgabios.bin from SeaBIOS inside the
ROM.
- Added seabios (and sgavgabios) to grub as payload option in menu
- Disabled serial output in Memtest86+ (no longer needed) to speed up
tests.
- MemTest86+ now works properly, it can output on the laptop
screen (no serial port needed anymore).
- Added getgrubinvaders, builddeps-grubinvaders scripts. Added these
to getall and builddeps.
- Added [GRUB Invaders](http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB_invaders)
menu entry in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
- Added rules to builddeps-coreboot to build libpayload with
TinyCurses. (added appropriate instructions to cleandeps script).
- Commented out lines in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg for loading
font/background (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in text-mode).
- Commented out lines in buildrom-withgrub that included
backgrounds/fonts (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in
text-mode).
- Added resources/utilities/i945-pwm/ (from
git://git.mtjm.eu/i945-pwm), for debugging acpi brightness on i945
systems.
- Added instructions for it in builddeps, builddeps-i945pwm,
builddeb and cleandeps
- 'build' script: removed the parts that generated sha512sum
manifests (not needed, since release tarballs are GPG-signed)
- 'build' script: removed the parts that generated libreboot\_meta
directory (not needed anymore, since \_meta will be hosted in git)
- Updated \#build\_meta (and other parts of documentation) to
accomodate this change.
- Documentation: simplified (refactored) the notes in \#rom
- 'build' script: removed the parts that generated libreboot\_bin
and added them to a new script: 'build-release'
- Documentation: \#build updated to reflect the above.
- ~~Added all gcry\_\* modules to grub (luks/cryptomount):
gcry\_arcfour gcry\_camellia gcry\_crc gcry\_dsa gcry\_md4
gcry\_rfc2268 gcry\_rmd160 gcry\_seed gcry\_sha1 gcry\_sha512
gcry\_twofish gcry\_blowfish gcry\_cast5 gcry\_des gcry\_idea
gcry\_md5 gcry\_rijndael gcry\_rsa gcry\_serpent gcry\_sha256
gcry\_tiger gcry\_whirlpool~~
- Added GNUtoo's list of GRUB modules (includes all of the gcry\_\*
modules above), cryptomount should be working now.
- Removed builddeb-bucts and builddeb-flashrom, merged them with
builddeb ( updated accordingly)
- Removed buildpac-bucts and buildpac-flashrom, merged them with
buildpac ( updated accordingly)
- Renamed buildpac to deps-parabola ( updated accordingly)
- Documentation: removed all parts talking about build dependencies,
replaced them with links to \#build\_dependencies
- Documentation: emphasized more strongly on the documentation, the
need to re-build bucts and/or flashrom before flashing a ROM image.
- build-release: flashrom, nvramtool, cbfstool and bucts are no longer
provided pre-compiled in binary archives, and are now in source form
only. (to maximize distro compatibility).
- 'build' script: replaced grub.elf assembly instructons, it is now
handled by a utility added under resources/utilities/grub-assemble
- Moved resources/grub/keymap to
resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap, and updated that utility
to use it
- Documentation: removed useless links to pictures of keyboard layouts
and unmodified layouts.
- Removed all unused fonts from dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34/ directory
- 'buildrom-withgrub' script: updated it to create 2 sets of ROMs
for each system: one with text-mode, one with coreboot framebuffer.
- Documentation: updated \#rom to reflect the above
- Deleted unused README and COPYING file from main directory
- Removed some rm -Rf .git\* instructions from the get\* scripts and
moved them to build-release script
- Split up default grub.cfg into 6 parts:
extra/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg} and
menuentries/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg}
- buildrom-withgrub script uses these to generate the correct
grub.cfg for each type of configuration.
- grub\_memdisk.cfg (used inside grub.elf) now only loads grub.cfg
from cbfs. It no longer enables serial output or sets prefix.
(menuentries/common.cfg does instead)
- resources/grub/config/extra/common.cfg, added:
- insmod instructions to load those modules: nativedisk, ehci,
ohci, uhci, usb, usbserial\_pl2303, usbserial\_ftdi,
usbserial\_usbdebug
- set prefix=(memdisk)/boot/grub
- For native graphics (recommended by coreboot wiki):\
gfxpayload=keep\
terminal\_output \--append gfxterm
- Play a beep on startup:\
play 480 440 1
- Documentation: updated gnulinux/grub\_cbfs.html to make it safer
(and easier) to follow.