.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ .. sectionauthor:: Bin Meng Coreboot ======== Build Instructions for U-Boot as coreboot payload ------------------------------------------------- Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets on other architectures, like below:: $ make coreboot_defconfig $ make all Test with coreboot ------------------ For testing U-Boot as the coreboot payload, there are things that need be paid attention to. coreboot supports loading an ELF executable and a 32-bit plain binary, as well as other supported payloads. With the default configuration, U-Boot is set up to use a separate Device Tree Blob (dtb). As of today, the generated u-boot-dtb.bin needs to be packaged by the cbfstool utility (a tool provided by coreboot) manually as coreboot's 'make menuconfig' does not provide this capability yet. The command is as follows:: # in the coreboot root directory $ ./build/util/cbfstool/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-flat-binary \ -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110000 Make sure 0x1110000 matches CONFIG_TEXT_BASE, which is the symbol address of _x86boot_start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S). If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to use CONFIG_OF_EMBED instead of CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE. To enable video you must enable these options in coreboot: - Set framebuffer graphics resolution (1280x1024 32k-color (1:5:5)) - Keep VESA framebuffer At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This works correctly for link though. You can run via QEMU using:: qemu-system-x86_64 -bios build/coreboot.rom -serial mon:stdio The `-serial mon:stdio` part shows both output in the display and on the console. It is optional. You can add `nographic` as well to *only* get console output. To run with a SATA drive called `$DISK`:: qemu-system-x86_64 -bios build/coreboot.rom -serial mon:stdio \ -drive id=disk,file=$DISK,if=none \ -device ahci,id=ahci \ -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bus=ahci.0 Then you can scan it with `scsi scan` and access it normally. To use 4GB of memory, typically necessary for booting Linux distros, add `-m 4GB`. 64-bit U-Boot ------------- In addition to the 32-bit 'coreboot' build there is a 'coreboot64' build. This produces an image which can be booted from coreboot (32-bit). Internally it works by using a 32-bit SPL binary to switch to 64-bit for running U-Boot. It can be useful for running UEFI applications, for example with the coreboot build in `$CBDIR`:: DISK=ubuntu-23.04-desktop-amd64.iso CBDIR=~/coreboot/build cp $CBDIR/coreboot.rom.in coreboot.rom cbfstool coreboot.rom add-flat-binary -f u-boot-x86-with-spl.bin \ -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110000 qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2G -smp 4 -bios coreboot.rom \ -drive id=disk,file=$DISK,if=none \ -device ahci,id=ahci \ -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bus=ahci.0 \ USB keyboard ------------ The `CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT` option is enabled by default, meaning that USB starts up just before the command-line starts. This allows user interaction on non-laptop devices which use a USB keyboard. CBFS access ----------- You can use the 'cbfs' commands to access the Coreboot filesystem:: => cbfsinit => cbfsinfo CBFS version: 0x31313132 ROM size: 0x100000 Boot block size: 0x4 CBFS size: 0xffdfc Alignment: 64 Offset: 0x200 => cbfsls size type name ------------------------------------------ 32 cbfs header cbfs master header 16720 17 fallback/romstage 53052 17 fallback/ramstage 398 raw config 715 raw revision 117 raw build_info 4044 raw fallback/dsdt.aml 640 cmos layout cmos_layout.bin 17804 17 fallback/postcar 335797 payload fallback/payload 607000 null (empty) 10752 bootblock bootblock 12 file(s) => Memory map ---------- ========== ================================================================== Address Region at that address ========== ================================================================== ffffffff Top of ROM (and last byte of 32-bit address space) 7a9fd000 Typical top of memory available to U-Boot (use cbsysinfo to see where memory range 'table' starts) 10000000 Memory reserved by coreboot for mapping PCI devices (typical size 2151000, includes framebuffer) 1920000 CONFIG_SYS_CAR_ADDR, fake Cache-as-RAM memory, used during startup 1110000 CONFIG_TEXT_BASE (start address of U-Boot code, before reloc) 110000 CONFIG_BLOBLIST_ADDR (before being relocated) 100000 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR f0000 ACPI tables set up by U-Boot (typically redirects to 7ab10030 or similar) 500 Location of coreboot sysinfo table, used during startup ========== ================================================================== Debug UART ---------- It is possible to enable the debug UART with coreboot. To do this, use the info from the cbsysinfo command to locate the UART base. For example:: => cbsysinfo ... Serial I/O port: 00000000 base : 00000000 pointer : 767b51bc type : 2 base : fe03e000 baud : 0d115200 regwidth : 4 input_hz : 0d1843200 PCI addr : 00000010 ... Here you can see that the UART base is fe03e000, regwidth is 4 (1 << 2) and the input clock is 1843200. So you can add the following CONFIG options:: CONFIG_DEBUG_UART=y CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_BASE=fe03e000 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_CLOCK=1843200 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_SHIFT=2 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_ANNOUNCE=y coreboot in CI -------------- CI runs tests using a pre-built coreboot image. This ensures that U-Boot can boot as a coreboot payload, based on a known-good build of coreboot. To update the `coreboot.rom` file which is used: #. Build coreboot with `CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER=y`. If using `make menuconfig` this is under `Devices ->Display->Framebuffer mode->Linear "high resolution" framebuffer`. #. Compress the resulting `coreboot.rom`:: xz -c /path/to/coreboot/build/coreboot.rom >coreboot.rom.xz #. Upload the file to Google drive #. Send a patch to change the file ID used by wget in the CI yaml files.