From 5e05bae4867cfd7c58befb1561cfe895078fda2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leah Rowe Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:08:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] remove unnecessary articles --- site/contrib.md | 401 -------------------------------------------- site/footer.include | 3 - site/git.md | 3 - site/who.md | 31 ---- 4 files changed, 438 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 site/contrib.md delete mode 100644 site/who.md diff --git a/site/contrib.md b/site/contrib.md deleted file mode 100644 index fc09d80..0000000 --- a/site/contrib.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,401 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Project contributors -x-toc-enable: true -... - -This list does not necessarily reflect who is currently working on the project, -but it lists some people who have contributed to the project in meaningful ways. - -If we forgot to mention you here, let us know and we'll add you. (or if -you don't want to be mentioned, let us know and we'll remove your -entry) - -Information about who works on Libreboot, and how the project is run, can -be found on this page: [who.md](who.md) - -You can know the history of the Libreboot project, simply by reading this page. -It goes into detail about all of the major contributions to the project, and in -general how the project was created (and who helped create it). - -Leah Rowe ---------- - -**Founder of the Libreboot project, and currently the lead developer.** Leah -works on all aspects of Libreboot, such as: - -* General management. Leah handles all outside contributions to Libreboot, - reviews pull requests, deals with bug reports, delegates tasks when necessary - or desirable. Leah controls the libreboot.org server infrastructure, hosted - in her lab (of course it runs Libreboot!) -* Leah has the final say on all decisions, taking input via discussion with - members of the public, mostly on IRC. Leah oversees releases of Libreboot, - and generally keeps the project going. Without Leah, there would be no Libreboot! -* The build system (lbmk, short for Libreboot Make). This is the automated build - system that sits at the heart of Libreboot; it downloads, patches, configures - and compiles the relevant components like coreboot, GNU GRUB and generates - the Libreboot ROM images that you can find in release archives. -* Upstream work on coreboot, when necessary (and other projects that Libreboot - uses). This means also working with people from outside of the Libreboot - project, to get patches merged (among other things) on the upstream projects - that Libreboot uses -* Providing user support on IRC -* *Commercial* user support via her company listed - on [the suppliers page](/suppliers.md) - -Leah is also responsible for [osboot.org](https://osboot.org/) which is heavily -based on Libreboot, but with different project goals. - -Other people are listed below, in alphabetical order: - -Alyssa Rosenzweig ------------------ - -Switched the website to use markdown in lieu of handwritten HTML and custom -PHP. **Former libreboot project maintainer (sysadmin for libreboot.org).** - -Alyssa wrote the original static site generator (bash scripts converting -markdown to html, via pandoc) for libreboot.org. This static site generator has -now been heavily modified and forked into a formal project, by Leah Rowe: - - (untitled is Leah's work, not Alyssa's, but it's based on -Alyssa's original work on the static site generator that Libreboot used to use; -the Libreboot website is now built with Untitled) - -Andrew Robbins --------------- - -Worked on large parts of Libreboot's old build system and related documentation. -Andrew joined the Libreboot project as a full time developer during June 2017, -until his departure in March 2021. - -I, Leah Rowe, am very grateful to Andrew Robbins for his numerous contributions -over the years. - -Arthur Heymans --------------- - -Merged a patch from coreboot into libreboot, enabling C3 and C4 power -states to work correctly on GM45 laptops. This was a long-standing issue -before Athur's contribution. Arthur also fixed VRAM size on i945 on -GM45 systems, allowing maximum VRAM allocation for the onboard GPUs on -these systems, another longstanding issue in libreboot. - -Arthur also did work on the Libreboot build system, when he was a member of the -project. He still works on coreboot, to this day, and Libreboot greatly -benefits from his work. His contributions to the coreboot project, and Libreboot, -are invaluable. - -Damien Zammit -------------- - -Maintains the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L coreboot port, which is integrated -in libreboot. Also works on other hardware for the benefit of the -libreboot project. - -Damien didn't work directly on Libreboot itself, but he worked heavily with -Leah Rowe, integrating patches and new board ports into Libreboot, based on -Damien's upstream work on coreboot. - -Denis Carikli -------------- - -Based on the work done by Peter Stuge, Vladimir Serbineko and others in -the coreboot project, got native graphics initialization to work on the -ThinkPad X60, allowing it to be supported in libreboot. Denis gave -a lot of advice and helped found the libreboot project. - -Denis was a mentor to Leah Rowe in the early days, when she founded the -Libreboot project. A lot of the decision decisions taken, especially with the -Libreboot build system (lbmk), were inspired from talks with Denis. - -Denis taught Leah about registers used by Intel GPUs for backlight control. In -the early days, the ThinkPad X60 and T60 laptops in Libreboot did not have -backlight control working, so the brightness was always 100%. With Denis's help, -Leah was able to get backlight controls working by reverse engineering the -correct values to write in those registers. Based on this, a simple fix was -written in coreboot; however, the fix just wrote directly to the register and -didn't work with ACPI based brightness controls. Others in coreboot later -improved it, making ACPI-based backlight controls work properly, based on this -earlier work. - -Jeroen Quint ------------- - -Contributed several fixes to the libreboot documentation, relating to -installing Parabola with full disk encryption on libreboot systems. - -Joshua Gay ----------- - -Joshua is former FSF staff. - -Joshua helped with the early founding of the Libreboot project, in his capacity -(at that time) as the FSF's licensing and compliance manager. It was his job to -review products sent into to the FSF for review; the FSF has a certification -program called *Respects Your Freedom* (RYF) where the FSF will promote your -company's products if it comes with all Free Software. - -I, Leah Rowe, was initially just selling ThinkPad X60 laptops with regular -coreboot on them, and this included CPU microcode updates. At the time, I didn't -think much of that. Joshua contacted me, in his capacity at the FSF, and asked -if I would be interested in the FSF's RYF program; I was very surprised that the -FSF would take me seriously, and I said yes. This is what started the early -work on Libreboot. Joshua showed me all the problems my products had, and from -that, the solution was clear: - -A project needed to exist, providing a fully free version of coreboot, without -any binary blobs. At the time (and this is still true today), coreboot was not -entirely free software and shipped with binary blobs by default. In particular, -CPU microcode updates were included by default, on all x86 machines. Working -with Joshua who reviewed my work, I created a fully free version of coreboot. -At first, it wasn't called Libreboot, and the work was purely intended for my -company (at that time called Gluglug) to be promoted by the FSF. - -Joshua used his media connections at the FSF to heavily promote my work, and -on December 13th, 2013, the Libreboot project was born (but not called that). -Joshua made sure that everyone knew what I was doing! - -A few months later, the name *Libreboot* was coined, and the domain name -*libreboot.org* was registered. At that point, the Libreboot project (in early -2014) was officially born. Once again, Joshua provided every bit of help he -could, heavily promoting the project and he even wrote this article on the FSF -website, announcing it: - - - -Klemens Nanni -------------- - -Made many fixes and improvements to the GRUB configuration used in -libreboot, and several tweaks to the build system. - -Leah Rowe initially helped Klemens get his project, autoboot, off the ground. -Autoboot (website autoboot.org) is no longer online, but was a fork of Libreboot -with different project goals; in late 2020, Leah Rowe decided to create her -own new fork of Libreboot called *osboot*, heavily inspired by Klemens's earlier -work. See: - -The following is an archive of autoboot.org, from when it was online back in -2016: (the -autoboot website went offline a few months later, after Klemens abandoned the -project) - -Lisa Marie Maginnis -------------------- - -Lisa is a former sysadmin at the Free Software Foundation. In the early days of -the project, she provided Leah with a lot of technical advice. She initially -created Libreboot IRC channel, when Leah did not know how to -use IRC, and also handed +F founder status to Leah for the channel. As an FSF -sysadmin, it was Lisa's job to maintain a lot of the infrastructure used by -Libreboot; at the time, mailing lists on the GNU Savannah website were used by -the Libreboot project. Lisa was also the one who originally encouraged Leah to -have Libreboot join the GNU project (a decision that was later, rather -regrettably, reversed). When Paul Kocialkowski was a member of the project in -2016, she helped him get help from the FSF; he was the leader of the Replicant -project at the time, which had funding from the FSF, and the FSF authorized him -to use some of that funding for his work on Libreboot, thanks to Lisa's -encouragement while she worked at the FSF. - -Lisa also stepped in when Leah Rowe missed her LibrePlanet 2016 talk. Leah was -scheduled to do a talk about Libreboot, but didn't show up in time. Lisa, along -with Patrick McDermott (former Libreboot developer, who was present at that -conference) did the talk in Leah's place. The talk was never recorded, but the -Free Software Foundation has these photos of that talk on their LibrePlanet -website (the woman with the blue hair is Lisa, and the long-haired dude with the -moustache is Patrick): - - -(archive link: ) - - -(archive link: ) - -Fun fact: Patrick is also the lead developer of ProteanOS, an FSF-endorsed -embedded OS project: (uses BusyBox and Linux-libre) - -Leah Rowe ran *2* LibrePlanet workshops; one in 2015 and another in 2016, while -visiting Boston, MA, USA on both occasions to attend these conferences. These -workshops were for Libreboot installations. People came to both workshops, to -have Libreboot installed onto their computers. As FSF sysadmin, at that time, -Lisa provided all of the infrastructure and equipment used at those workshops. -Without her help, those workshops would have not been possible. - -When the ASUS KGPE-D16 mainboard (high-end server board) was ported to Libreboot, -Leah, working with Timothy Pearson (the one who ported it), shared patches back -and forth with Lisa around mid 2016, mostly raminit patches, to get the board -running at the FSF offices. This work ultimately lead to a most wonderful -achievement: - -The and websites now run on -Librebooted ASUS KGPE-D16 based servers, on a fully free GNU+Linux distro. This -means that the FSF now has full software freedom for their hosting infrastructure. - -The FSF also provides access to this infrastructure for many other projects -(besides GNU projects); for example, Trisquel uses a D16 provided by the FSF -for their development server used for building Trisquel releases and testing -changes to the Trisquel GNU+Linux distribution. Trisquel is a fully free -GNU+Linux distribution, heavily promoted by the FSF. - -Lisa was a strong supporter of Libreboot in the very early days of the project, -and her contributions were invaluable. I, Leah Rowe, owe her a debt of gratitude. - -Marcus Moeller --------------- - -Made the libreboot logo. - -Patrick "P. J." McDermott ---------------------------- - -Patrick also did a lot of research and wrote the libreboot FAQ section -relating to the [Intel Management Engine](../faq.md#intelme), in addition -to making several improvements to the build system in libreboot. **Former -libreboot project maintainer.** - -In 2016, Leah Rowe ran a Libreboot installation workshop at the FSF's -LibrePlanet conference. Working alongside Leah, Patrick helped run the workshop -and assisted with installing Libreboot onto people's machines. - -Paul Kocialkowski ------------------ - -Ported the ARM (Rockchip RK3288 SoC) based *Chromebook* laptops to -libreboot. Also one of the main [Replicant](http://www.replicant.us/) -developers. - -Paul Menzel ------------ - -Investigated and fixed a bug in coreboot on the ThinkPad X60/T60 exposed -by Linux kernel 3.12 and up, which caused 3D acceleration to stop -working and video generally to become unstable. The issue was that coreboot, -when initializing the Intel video chipset, was mapping *GTT Stolen Memory* in -the wrong place, because the code was based on kernel code and the Linux kernel -had the same bug. When Linux fixed it, it exposed the same bug in coreboot. - -Paul worked with Libreboot on -this, sending patches to test periodically until the bug was fixed -in coreboot, and then helped her integrate the fix in libreboot. - -Peter Stuge ------------ - -Helped write the [FAQ section about DMA](../faq.md#hddssd-firmware), and provided -general advice in the early days of the project. Peter was a coreboot developer -in those days, and a major developer in the *libusb* project (which flashrom -makes heavy use of). - -Peter also wrote the *bucts* utility used to set Backup Control (BUC) Top Swap -(TS) bit on i945 laptops such as ThinkPad X60/T60, which is useful for a -workaround to flash Libreboot without using external hardware; on this machine, -with Lenovo BIOS present, it's possible to flash everything except the main -bootblock, but Intel platforms have 2 bootblocks, and you specify which one is -to be used by setting the TS bit. You then boot with only one bootblock flashed -(by the coreboot project's bootblock on that machine), and afterwards you reset -bucts before flashing the ROM again, to flash the main bootblock. Libreboot -hosts a copy of his work, because his website hosting bucts is no longer -responsive. - -Steve Shenton -------------- - -Steve did the early reverse engineering work on the Intel Flash Descriptor used -by ICH9M machines such as ThinkPad X200. He created a C struct defining (using -bitfields in C) this descriptor region. With some clever tricks, he was able to -discover the existence of a bit in the descriptor for *disabling* the Intel ME -(management engine) on those platforms. - -His initial proof of concept only defined the descriptor, and would do this: - -* Read the default descriptor and GbE regions from a Lenovo X200 ROM (default - firmware, not coreboot) -* Disable the ME, by setting 2 bits in the descriptor -* Disable the ME region -* Move descriptor+GbE (12KiB in total) next to each other -* Allocate the remaining flash space to the BIOS region -* Generated the 12KiB descriptor+GbE region, based on this, to insert into a - coreboot ROM image. - -In the early days, before Libreboot supported GM45+ICH9M platforms such as -ThinkPad X200/T400, you could use those machines but to avoid the Intel ME you -had to flash it without a descriptor region. This worked fine in those days, -because the ME only handled TPM and AMT on those machines, and the system would -work normally, but that Intel Flash Descriptor also handles the Intel GbE NVM -region in flash, which is used for the Intel Gigabit Ethernet interface. - -So you either had Intel ME, or no ethernet support. Steve figured out how to -disable the Intel ME via 2 toggle bits in the descriptor, and also how to -remove the Intel ME region from flash. - -Based on his research, I, Leah Rowe, working alongside Steve, also reverse -engineered the layout of the Intel GbE NVM (non-volatile memory) region in the -boot flash. This region defines configuration options for the onboard Intel -GbE NIC, if present. - -Based on this, I was able to take Steve's initial proof of concept and write -the `ich9gen` utility, which generates an Intel Flash Descriptor and GbE NVM -region, from scratch, without an Intel ME region defined. It is this tool, -the `ich9gen` tool, that Libreboot uses to provide ROM images for GM45+ICH9M -platforms (such as ThinkPad X200/T400/T500/W500), with a fully functional -descriptor and functional Gigabit Ethernet, but *without* needing Intel -Management Engine (ME) firmware, thus making those machines *libre* (the ME -is fully disabled, when you use a descriptor+gbe image generated by `ich9gen`). - -With *my* `ich9gen` tool (Steve's tool was called `ich9deblob`), you didn't -need a dump of the original Lenovo BIOS firmware anymore! I could not have -written this tool, without Steve's initial proof of concept. I worked with him, -extensively, for many months. All GM45+ICH9M support (X200, T400, etc) in -Libreboot is made possible because of the work he did, back in 2014. - -Swift Geek ----------- - -Contributed a patch for ich9gen to generate 16MiB descriptors. - -After that, Swift Geek slowly became more involved until he became a full time -developer. Swift Geeks contributions were never really in the form of *code*, -but what he lacked in code, he made up for in providing excellent support, both -to users and other developers, helping others learn more about technology at a -low level. - -When Swift Geek was a member of the project, his role was largely providing -user support (in the IRC channel), and conducting research. Swift Geek knows a -lot about hardware. Swift Geek also did some upstream development on GNU GRUB. - -Swift Geek has provided technical advice on numerous occasions, to Leah Rowe, -and helped her to improve her soldering skills in addition to teaching her -some repair skills, to the point where she can now repair most faults on -ThinkPad mainboards (while looking at the schematics and boardview). - -Swiftgeek left the project in March 2021. I, Leah Rowe, wish him all the best -in his endeavours, and I'm very grateful to his numerous contributions over the -years. - -Timothy Pearson ---------------- - -Ported the ASUS KGPE-D16 board to coreboot for the company Raptor -Engineering of which Timothy is the CEO. -Timothy maintains this code in coreboot, -helping the project with the libreboot integration for it. This person's -contact details are on the raptor site, or you can ping **tpearson** on -the Libera IRC network. - -vitali64 --------- - -Added cstate 3 support on macbook21, enabling higher battery life and cooler -CPU temperatures on idle usage. vitali64 on irc - -Vladimir Serbinenko -------------------- - -Ported many of the thinkpads supported in libreboot, to coreboot, and -made many fixes in coreboot which benefited the libreboot project. - -Vladimir wrote a lot of the original video initialization code used by various -Intel platforms in Libreboot, when flashing it (now rewritten -by others in Ada, for libgfxinit in coreboot, but originally it was written in -C and included directly in coreboot; libgfxinit is a 3rdparty submodule of -coreboot). diff --git a/site/footer.include b/site/footer.include index d1898e3..0667182 100644 --- a/site/footer.include +++ b/site/footer.include @@ -2,12 +2,9 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * [Edit this page](/git.md) -* [Who develops Libreboot?](/who.md) * [License](/license.md) * [Template](/template-license.md) * [Logo](logo-license.md) -* [Authors](/contrib.md) -* [Join the FSF!](https://www.fsf.org/jfb) Unless otherwise stated, documents/pages/images on this website/repository are released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, either diff --git a/site/git.md b/site/git.md index 429bdd6..77cd169 100644 --- a/site/git.md +++ b/site/git.md @@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ x-toc-enable: true Libreboot repositories ====================== -Information about who works on Libreboot and who runs the project can be -found on [who.md](who.md) - Libreboot has 5 Git repositories: * Build system: diff --git a/site/who.md b/site/who.md deleted file mode 100644 index f6f91e4..0000000 --- a/site/who.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Who develops Libreboot? -x-toc-enable: true -... - -The purpose of this page is to clearly define who works on Libreboot, who runs -the project, how decisions are made, and in general how the project functions. - -You can find information about major contributions made to Libreboot, on this -page which lists such people: [List of contributors](contrib.md) - -Leah Rowe (founder, lead developer) -=================================== - -Leah Rowe is the founder of the Libreboot project, and currently the only -full-time developer. Leah oversees all development of Libreboot, reviewing -outside contributions, and has the final say over all decisions. Leah owns and -operates the libreboot.org servers from her lab in the UK. The servers are -running Libreboot of course! - -You can learn more about Leah's involvement with Libreboot, by reading her -entry on the [page listing all contributors, past and present](contrib.md) - -Developers wanted! -================== - -Leah is the only developer right now. This section will be updated when more -developers join the -project. **Learn how to contribute patches on the [git page](git.md)** - -All are welcome to join in on development.