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libreboot includes a script that automatically installs apt-get dependencies in Ubuntu 20.04. It works well in other apt-get distros (such as Trisquel and Debian):
sudo ./build dependencies ubuntu2004
Separate scripts also exist:
sudo ./build dependencies debian
sudo ./build dependencies arch
sudo ./build dependencies void
Technically, any GNU+Linux distribution can be used to build libreboot. However, you will have to write your own script for installing build dependencies.
libreboot Make (lbmk) automatically runs all necessary commands; for example
./build payload grub will automatically run ./build module grub if the
required utilities for GRUB are not built, to produce payloads.
As a result, you can now (after installing the correct build dependencies) run just a single command, from a fresh Git clone, to build the ROM images:
./build boot roms
or even just build specific ROM images, e.g.:
./build boot roms x60
If you wish to build payloads, you can also do that. For example:
./build payload grub
./build payload seabios
Previous steps will be performed automatically. However, you can still run individual parts of the build system manually, if you choose. This may be beneficial when you're making changes, and you wish to test a specific part of lbmk.
Therefore, if you only want to build ROM images, just do the above. Otherwise, please continue reading!
Optional: extract binary blobs
Some boards, including all sandy/ivybridge boards require nonfree blobs which cannot be included in libreboot. For boards requiring these blobs, libreboot will attempt to download the blobs itself. If your board does not have blob sources available, then you must extract them from a backup of you vendor rom. You must point libreboot to the backup rom and tell the build system which board you want to extract blobs for. For example, to extract blobs for the t440p you must run:
./blobutil extract t440p_12mb /path/to/12mb_backup.rom
You can then build the rom for this board as normal:
./build boot roms t440p_12mb
Second, download all of the required software components
If you didn't simply run ./build boot roms (with or without extra
arguments), you can still perform the rest of the build process manually. Read
on! You can read about all available scripts in lbmk by reading
the libreboot maintenance manual; lbmk is designed to be modular
which means that each script can be used on its own (if that's not true, for
any script, it's a bug that should be fixed).
It's as simple as that:
./download all
The above command downloads all modules defined in the libreboot build system. However, you can download modules individually.
This command shows you the list of available modules:
./download list
Example of downloading an individual module:
./download coreboot
./download seabios
./download grub
./download flashrom
Third, build all of the modules:
Building a module means that it needs to have already been downloaded. Currently, the build system does not automatically do pre-requisite steps such as this, so you must verify this yourself.
Again, very simple:
./build module all
This builds every module defined in the libreboot build system, but you can build modules individually.
The following command lists available modules:
./build module list
Example of building specific modules:
./build module grub
./build module seabios
./build module flashrom
Commands are available to clean a module, which basically runs make-clean. You can list these commands:
./build clean list
Clean all modules like so:
./build clean all
Example of cleaning specific modules:
./build clean grub
./build clean cbutils
Fourth, build all of the payloads:
Very straight forward:
./build payload all
You can list available payloads like so:
./build payload list
Example of building specific payloads:
./build payload grub
./build payload seabios
The build-payload command is is a prerequsite for building ROM images.
Fifth, build the ROMs!
Run this command:
./build boot roms
Each board has its own configuration in lbmk under resources/coreboot/
which specifies which payloads are supported.
By default, all ROM images are built, for all boards. If you wish to build just
a specific board, you can specify the board name based on the directory name
for it under resources/coreboot/. For example:
./build boot roms x60
Board names, like above, are the same as the directory names for each board,
under resources/coreboot/ in the build system.
That's it!
If all went well, ROM images should be available to you under bin/