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2018-08-20x86: dts: Remove coreboot_fb.dtsiBin Meng
There is no need to keep a separate coreboot_fb.dtsi since now we have a generic coreboot payload dts. While we are here, this also remove the out-of-date description in the documentation regarding to coreboot framebuffer driver with U-Boot loaded as a payload from coreboot. As the testing result with QEMU 2.5.0 shows, the driver just works like a charm. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2018-08-20x86: coreboot: Add generic coreboot payload supportBin Meng
Currently building U-Boot as the coreboot payload requires user to change the build configuration for a specific board during menuconfig process. This uses the board's native device tree to configure the hardware. For example, the device tree provides PCI address range for the PCI host controller and U-Boot will re-program all PCI devices' BAR to be within this range. In order to make sure we don't mess up the hardware, we should guarantee the range matches what coreboot programs the chipset. But we really should make the coreboot payload support easier. Just like EFI payload, we can create a generic coreboot payload for all x86 boards as well. The payload is configured to include as many generic drivers as possible. All stuff that touches low level initialization are not allowed as such is the coreboot's responsibility. Platform specific drivers (like gpio, spi, etc) are not included. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
2018-07-02x86: doc: Update EFI loader supportBin Meng
CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is fully supported on x86 now. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2018-06-17x86: doc: Fix reference to EFI doc in U-BootBin Meng
Since commit f3b5056c4e72 ("efi_loader: split README.efi into two separate documents"), the original README.efi was renamed to README.u-boot_on_efi, but x86 doc still refers to the old one. This updates the x86 doc to reference both README.u-boot_on_efi and README.uefi. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2018-06-13x86: cougarcanyon2: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_INTEL_MEBin Meng
As README.x86 already mentions, there are two SPI flashes mounted on Intel Cougar Canyon 2 board, called SPI-0 and SPI-1 respectively. SPI-0 stores the flash descriptor and the ME firmware. SPI-1 stores the actual BIOS image which is U-Boot. Building a single image with both ME firmware and U-Boot does not make sense. This also describes the exact flash location where the u-boot.rom should be programmed in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2018-05-07SPDX: Convert all of our single license tags to Linux Kernel styleTom Rini
When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from. So we picked the area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry. Since then, the Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line) and with slightly different comment styles than us. In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style. This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag contents. There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag and have introduced one. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2018-04-16x86: Rename coreboot-x86 to corebootSimon Glass
We only use coreboot as a target on x86 platforms, since on ARM platforms U-Boot always runs as the primary boot loader. Rename the coreboot-x86 platform to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2017-10-19x86: provide CONFIG_BUILD_ROMHeinrich Schuchardt
Up to now we depended on an exported variable to build u-boot.rom. We should be able to specify it in the configuration file, too. With this patch this becomes possible using the new Kconfig option CONFIG_BUILD_ROM. This option depends on CONFIG_X86 and is selected in qemu-x86_defconfig and qemu-x86_64_defconfig. Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2017-10-19x86: minnowmax: Adjust VGA rom addressBin Meng
Adjust VGA rom address to 0xfffb0000 so that u-boot.rom image can be built again. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2017-09-16x86: Support Intel Cherry Hill boardBin Meng
This adds support to Intel Cherry Hill board, a board based on Intel Braswell SoC. The following devices are validated: - serial port as the serial console - on-board Realtek 8169 ethernet controller - SATA AHCI controller - EMMC/SDHC controller - USB 3.0 xHCI controller - PCIe x1 slot with a graphics card - ICH SPI controller with an 8MB Macronix SPI flash - Integrated graphics device as the video console Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2017-08-14common: Move CONFIG_BOOTARGS to KconfigSam Protsenko
Also introduce CONFIG_USE_BOOTARGS option so we can control if CONFIG_BOOTARGS defined at all. Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org> [trini: Resync r8a779[56]_ulcb, various ls10xx targets] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2017-07-30x86: Add Intel Edison board filesAndy Shevchenko
Add Intel Edison board which is using U-Boot. The patch is based on work done by the following people (in alphabetical order): Aiden Park <aiden.park@intel.com> Dukjoon Jeon <dukjoon.jeon@intel.com> eric.park <eric.park@intel.com> Fabien Chereau <fabien.chereau@intel.com> Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com> Scott D Phillips <scott.d.phillips@intel.com> Sebastien Colleur <sebastienx.colleur@intel.com> Steve Sakoman <steve.sakoman@intel.com> Vincent Tinelli <vincent.tinelli@intel.com> In case we're building for Intel Edison, we must have 4096 bytes of zeroes in the beginning on u-boot.bin. This is done in board/intel/edison/config.mk. First run sets hardware_id environment variable which is read from System Controller Unit (SCU). Serial number (serial# environment variable) is generated based on eMMC CID. MAC address on USB network interface is unique to the board but kept the same all over the time. Set mac address from U-Boot using following scheme: OUI = 02:00:86 next 3 bytes of MAC address set from eMMC serial number This allows to have a unique mac address across reboot and flashing. Signed-off-by: Vincent Tinelli <vincent.tinelli@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> [bmeng: Add MAINTAINERS file for Intel Edison board] Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2017-05-17x86: Document ACPI S3 supportBin Meng
Now that we have ACPI S3 support on Intel MinnowMax board, document some generic information of S3 and how to test it. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2016-11-14x86: Enable EFI loader supportSimon Glass
Enable this so that EFI applications (notably grub) can be run under U-Boot on x86 platforms. At present the 'hello world' EFI application is not supported for the qemu-x86_efi_payload64 board. That board builds a payload consisting of a 64-bit header and a 32-bit U-Boot, which is incompatible with the way the EFI loader builds its EFI application. The following error is obtained: x86_64-linux-ld.bfd: i386 architecture of input file `lib/efi_loader/helloworld.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output This could be corrected with additional Makefile rules. For now, this feature is disabled for that board. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> [agraf: drop hello kconfig bits] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2016-10-12x86: coreboot: Convert to use DM coreboot video driverBin Meng
This converts coreboot to use DM framebuffer driver. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-10-12x86: doc: Correct qfw command exampleBin Meng
The kernel load address for zboot should be 0x1000000. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-10-12x86: doc: Document coreboot framebuffer driver issue on QEMUBin Meng
For some unknown reason, coreboot framebuffer driver never works on QEMU since day 1. It seems the driver only works on real hardware. Document this issue. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-08-16x86: Mention running U-Boot in 64-bit mode in the READMESimon Glass
This feature is not supported. Document this, and add some details on how it might be implemented. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-08-16x86: Add a reference to README.efiSimon Glass
UEFI is commonly used on x86. Add a reference to U-Boot's support for this in the x86 README. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-08-16x86: doc: Add note about the debug FSP usage on BayTrailStefan Roese
The debug FSP image is bigger in size than the normal FSP image. This patch adds a small description on how to use this FSP debug version by changing CONFIG_FSP_ADDR. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-07-12x86: acpi: Pack global NVS into ACPI tableBin Meng
Now that platform-specific ACPI global NVS is added, pack it into ACPI table and get its address fixed up. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com> Tested-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-30x86: galileo: Enable ACPI table generationBin Meng
Enable ACPI table generation by creating a DSDT table. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: doc: Add porting hints for ACPI with WindowsBin Meng
Windows might cache system information and only detect ACPI changes if you modify the ACPI table versions. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: doc: Mention Ubuntu/Windows installation and boot supportBin Meng
As of now, U-Boot can support installing and booting Ubuntu/Windows with the help of SeaBIOS. Update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: doc: Update information about IGD with SeaBIOSBin Meng
Document how to make SeaBIOS load and run the VGA ROM of Intel IGD device when loaded by U-Boot. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: minnowmax: Adjust U-Boot environment address in SPI flashBin Meng
Currently U-Boot environment address is at offset 0x7fe00 of a 8MB SPI flash. When creating a partial u-boot.rom image without flash descriptor and ME firmware, U-Boot actually occupies the last 1MB of the flash, and reprograming U-Boot causes previous environment settings get lost which is not convenient during testing. Adjust the environment address to 0x6ef000 instead (before the MRC cache data region in the flash). Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: doc: Document ACPI supportBin Meng
Remove ACPI from the TODO list and add a new section to document current ACPI support in U-Boot. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-23x86: doc: Minor update for accuracyBin Meng
This updates the doc for the following places: - Mention CRB for Bayley Bay - Mention Congatec QEVAL 2.0 & conga-QA3/E3845 - Limit part of the QEMU paragraphs to 80 cols - Correct some typos (drive, it's, Ubuntu) - Add description for "console=ttyS0,115200" - Remove CONFIG_BOOTDELAY description which is already in x86-common.h Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-03-17x86: Add support for the samus chromebookSimon Glass
This adds basic support for chromebook_samus. This is the 2015 Pixel and is based on an Intel broadwell platform. Supported so far are: - Serial - SPI flash - SDRAM init (with MRC cache) - SATA - Video (on the internal LCD panel) - Keyboard Various less-visible drivers are provided to make the above work (e.g. PCH, power control and LPC). The platform requires various binary blobs which are documented in the README. The major missing feature is USB3 since the existing U-Boot support does not work correctly with Intel XHCI controllers. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-03-17x86: Update README for new developmentsSimon Glass
Update a few points which have become out-of-date. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-03-17x86: Add a script to aid code conversion from corebootSimon Glass
It is useful to automate the process of converting code from coreboot a little. Add a sed script which performs some common transformations. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-03-17x86: Document how to play with SeaBIOSBin Meng
Boting SeaBIOS is done via U-Boot's bootelf command. Document this. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-02-21x86: doc: Update to include Intel Bayley Bay board instructionsBin Meng
Update existing documentation to mention Intel Bayley Bay board instructions, an additional Bay Trail based board to MinnowMax. This also adds a minor change to QEMU section to indicate clearly the instructions are for bare mode. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-02-21x86: Add Intel Cougar Canyon 2 boardBin Meng
This adds basic support to Intel Cougar Canyon 2 board, a board based on Chief River platform with an Ivy Bridge processor and a Panther Point chipset. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-28x86: baytrail: Add option to disable the internal UART to setup_early_uart()Stefan Roese
This patch adds a parameter to the function setup_early_uart() to either enable or disable the internal BayTrail legacy UART. Since the name setup_early_uart() does not match its functionality any more, lets rename it to setup_internal_uart() as well in this patch. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-13x86: qemu: add documentaion for the fw_cfg interfaceMiao Yan
Document the usage of 'qfw' command Signed-off-by: Miao Yan <yanmiaobest@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-10-21x86: Enable mrc cache for bayleybay and minnowmaxBin Meng
Now that we have added MRC cache for Intel FSP and BayTrail codes, enable it for all BayTrail boards (Bayley Bay and Minnow Max). Note it turns out that FSP for Intel Atom E6xx does not produce the HOB for NV storage, so we don't have such functionality on Intel Crown Bay board. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-10-21x86: fsp: Make hob command a sub-command to fspBin Meng
Introduce a new fsp command and make the existing hob command a sub-command to fsp for future extension. Also move cmd_hob.c to the dedicated fsp sub-directory in arch/x86/lib. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-10-21x86: Add SMBIOS table supportBin Meng
System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) is a specification for how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on Intel architecture systems. As of today the latest spec is 3.0 and can be downloaded from DMTF website. This commit adds a simple and minimum required implementation. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-10-21doc: Complement document about booting VxWorksBin Meng
Current document about how to boot VxWorks is limited. Add several chapters in README.vxworks to document this. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2015-09-16x86: doc: Add DMI to the TODO listBin Meng
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is not supported by U-Boot now. Add it to the TODO list. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-16x86: doc: Document some porting hints about Intel QuarkBin Meng
Document porting considerations for Intel Quark based board, including MRC parameters and PCIe initialization. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-09x86: doc: Change to use CONFIG_VGA_BIOS_ADDRBin Meng
CONFIG_X86_OPTION_ROM_ADDR has been renamed to CONFIG_VGA_BIOS_ADDR. Update the doc to refer to the new name. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-26x86: Correct microcode documentationSimon Glass
This is incorrect since we require the -m parameter to the microcode tool. Update the two examples to show this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-26x86: doc: Update coreboot payload entry point addressBin Meng
With recent EFI support, the entry point address of coreboot payload was changed. Now we update the address to use _x86boot_start, which is the same one for EFI. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-14x86: Add a simple interrupt script to the READMESimon Glass
It is a bit tedious to figure out the interrupt configuration for a new x86 platform. Add a script which can do this, based on the output of 'pci long'. This may be helpful in some cases. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-14x86: Add clarifications to the x86 READMEStoppa, Igor
* Explicitly list the targets supported in each section of the instructions from the x86 README. * Drop references to 'raw mode', in favor of 'bare mode'. Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-05x86: Document how to write PIRQ information in the device treeBin Meng
Document the development flow on figuring out PIRQ information during the U-Boot porting. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-05x86: Update README to explain booting Ubuntu on MinnowmaxSimon Glass
The steps required to boot a Linux distribution from U-Boot on x86 are not very complicated, but it is a good idea to have these written down in an accessible place. Document how to examine the boot media from U-Boot, how to load a kernel, load a ramdisk, set the kernel boot arguments and start the kernel. With these instructions Ubuntu boots mostly normally on Minnowmax. Note that the TSC timer does not operate correctly and gives warnings in the boot log. I expect that ACPI support will solve this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-05x86: qemu: Add MP initializationBin Meng
Add a cpu1 node to the device tree and enable the MP initialization on QEMU targets (i440fx and q35). Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>