Squash of #1502 + moving logo/bootsplash files under branding/Heads
- Move logos and bootsplashes from blobs to branding/Heads/
- Makefile: add support for BRAND_DIR which depends on BRAND_NAME which defaults to Heads if no branding
- Boards coreboot configs: change bootsplash directory to depend on BRAND_DIR (instead of BLOBS_DIR) in bootsplash enabled configs
- Branding/Heads/bootsplash-1024x768.jpg points to branding/Heads/d-wid-ThePlexus_coreboot-linuxboot-heads_background-plain_DonateQrCode.jpg
- xcf file deleted. Original still under #1502 to reuse for modification without recompressing (blobs/heads.xcf)
- CREDITS file created to point to original authors, remixers (Open for details)
- Thanks to: @d-wid for remixing Bing's AI generated Janus logo, @ThePlexus for Qubes Box concept and @ThrillerAtPlay for its matrix background
- intel igpu related - remove i915drmfb hacks and use simplefb and libgfxinit enabled fb
- coreboot 4.19: add patch to fix https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/500. fbwhiptail still tears screen if in native 1366x769 though
- coreboot 4.19: add patch to enable linux tampoline handle coreboot framebuffer (merged https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/76431)
- coreboot 4.19: add patch to enable coreboot to apply jpeg voodoo to create bootsplash.jpeg injected in cbfs at build time + CircleCI apt imagemagick
- (Thanks Nico Huber @icon again for above patches!)
- coreboot configs: adapt VESAFB/LIBGFXINIT to use maximum fb height/width
- coreboot configs for iGPU only: CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_HEIGHT CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_WIDTH to native size
- coreboot configs for dGPU based on Optional VBIOS injected: VESAFB set to 1280x1024 (maximum possible).
Details:
coreboot configs: remove CONFIG_LINUX_COMMAND_LINE="drm_kms_helper.drm_leak_fbdev_smem=1 i915.enable_fbc=0"
- Those were needed to expose i915drmfb driver prior of efifb working.
Remove CONFIG_NO_GFX_INIT from configs having CONFIG_NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SANDYBRIDGE=y
Add CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH_IMAGE from configs having CONFIG_NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SANDYBRIDGE=y
Add CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER from configs having CONFIG_NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SANDYBRIDGE=y
Set BOOTSPLASH parameters to match bootsplash and jpeg requirements
+CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_HEIGHT=768
+CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_WIDTH=1024
+CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH=y
Others paramaters defined per board default setting with coreboot.save_oldconfig_in_place helper
- add additional kernel boot params for i915 where needed:
- adds : drm_kms_helper.drm_leak_fbdev_smem=1 i915.enable_fbc=0 ( to permit kexec into vesa fb of kexec'ed kernel for i915 driven gpus without framebuffer compression, leaking smem fbdev address for kexec to pickup )
The calculations outlined at https://github.com/osresearch/heads/pull/1282#discussion_r1072473677
Sums to having 'ifdtool -f layout.txt ifd_shrinked.bin && cat layout.txt'
The example for T440p:
00000000:00000fff fd
00021000:00bfffff bios
00003000:00020fff me
00001000:00002fff gbe
Here: 00bfffff-00021000=BDEFFF
Which is exact result of @rbeslow's calculations.
There is an issue on haswell, maybe because of car, maybe because of non native memory init blob.
But this is not the case for xx20/xx30 boards.
This makes configs much less dependent on directory layout.
As of this commit the following variables are supported:
* @BOARD_BUILD_DIR@ - absolute path under build/
* @BLOB_DIR@ - absolute path to blobs/
Signed-off-by: Sergii Dmytruk <sergii.dmytruk@3mdeb.com>
This commit adds explanatory notes and updates existing t530 and w530 boards to generally align them with the dGPU points and provide signposting for those with and those without dGPU boards. It also adds an additional README in the blobs directory to explain the vbios extraction and building process.
