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>
- xx30 legacy boards (x230, x230-flash, t430, t430-flash) now rely also on coreboot 4.13
- DOWNSIDE: x230 and t430 legacy boards now rely on WHIPTAIL (NOT FBWhiptail) to have enough space to fit under 7mb)
- xx20 boards moved to 4.13 (no need of xx20-flash boards here since single SPI boards with 7.5mb useable since blobs scripts are required)
- DOWNSIDE: all xx20 boards now have dropbear deactivated, while still having ethernet driver in.
- qemu-coreboot and qemu-coreboot-fbwhiptail switched to coreboot 4.13 WITHOUT TPM SUPPORT (with cryptsetup 2.x support)
- DOWNSIDE:
- coreboot-qemu board CBFS_SIZE=0x700000 -> 0x750000
- coreboot-qemu-fbwhiptail CBFS_SIZE=0x750000 -> 0x780000
- CircleCi build recipe removes 4.8.1 boards altogether
- KGPE-D16 workstation is used as new base build to save workspace layer (we removed one workspace layer)
- Removing one workspace layer will save approx 2 hours of build time on fresh builds
- Removing one coreboot version will save us approx 2 hours of build time on fresh builds
- KGPE-D16 will stay to coreboot 4.11 until forward notice.
- All other board configs SHOULD be built on latest coreboot versions
- all: coreboot NO_POST for all boards
- all: coreboot NO_GFX_INIT (linux payload does the graphic init)
- all: coreboot TPM_MEASURED_BOOT (no more patches under Heads for measured boot)
- all: coreboot DRIVERS_PS2_KEYBOARD (fixes no keyboard on soft reboot and potentially xx30t xx20t fix for random raw keyboard (to be tested)
- all: coreboot removal of DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_5 under some boards
- all: coreboot removal of "loglevel=3" under some linux command line options booting Heads kernel
- all: coreboot removal of DEBUG_SMM_RELOCATION (unneeded)
- all: coreboot INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE and COLLECT_TIMESTAMPS for all boards
- all: coreboot CONSOLE_SERIAL present on all boards
- all: coreboot add VBT
- all: board configs switch to cryptsetup2
xx20 hotp-maximized boards:
- removal of dropbear (not enough space to have htop + dropbear)
txx0 boards coreboot:
- USE_OPTION_TABLE and STATIC_OPTION_TABLE added (todo: check T430 boards optimization and find issue/PR and ammend this commit)
* xx30-*-maximized: update flashrom options removing --ifd bios option, keeping whole flash of rom internally. WARNING: ifd needs to be initially unlocked through ifdtool -u on 8mb bottom SPI backup. YOU CANNOT COME FROM 1VYRAIN. IF COMING FROM SKULLS, YOU MUST HAVE RAN OPTIONAL -u OPTION FROM SKULLS. PLEASE UPGRADE ONLY AFTER HAVING A PHYSICAL BACKUP OF BOTH SPI FLASH CHIPS. MORE INFORMATION UNDER https://github.com/osresearch/heads/pull/703. This will guarantee that future flash of produced rom will reflash the ROM totally, where heads make sure of adding users customizations (public key, /etc/config.user) when internally flashed. Unfortunately, if you flash externally, you will have to reinject your public key and readd /etc/config customizations.
* Adding generated bincfg coreboot 4.8.1 patch (merged under coreboot 4.13 and backported here to 4.8.1), resulting in gbe.bin under blobs/xx30/gbe.bin and instructions to replicate in README prior of automation (under repo). Note that MAC under gbe.bin is fixed to DE:AD:C0:FF:EE unless extract.sh script is ran on external backup to keep current user's MAC (Thanks to @Thrilleratplay's contribution!)
* xx30 blobs: add two blobs management scripts for xx30: extract from local backup/download+neuter ME
extract.sh: extract from external backup: gbe.bin, neuter under me.bin and maximize BIOS+reduce ME regions under unlocked ifd.bin.
download_clean_me.sh: download and verify Lenovo latest ME version from website, and drop me.bin in place.
Note: me.bin is 98kb, containing only BUP and ROMP partitions which cannot be modified nor deleted else computer won't boot. As a result, BIOS region is maximized in ifd.bin to 11.5mb and coreboot config takes advantage of that freed space.
* CircleCI: xx30-*-maximized additional step to call download_clean_me.sh prior of building boards so that me.bin is dopped in place. This should be done by users prior of building xx30-*-maximized boards locally, which is imitated in CircleCI builds (look at .circleci/config.yaml for innoextract host added dependency and board buildings. Results on github for each commit).
