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Julius Werner 1f14762189 rk3288: Disable ramstage compression by default
The ramstage is loaded from romstage, so the LZMA scratchpad buffer used
to decompress it is part of the romstage BSS in SRAM. On RK3288, SRAM
cannot be cached which makes the decompression so slow that it's faster
to just load an uncompressed image from SPI. Disable ramstage
compression on this SoC to account for that.

Since Kconfig is weird and we cannot disable an option that is enabled
by default with 'select', we need to rearrange menu groups so that
'mainboard' and 'chipset' come before 'General setup', which allows the
subdirectory Kconfig files sourced by them to override the generic
defaults specified later.

BRANCH=None
BUG=None
TEST=Built for Pinky and Falco, confirmed that the former didn't have
COMPRESS_RAMSTAGE in its .config and the latter still did. Measured a
speed-up of about 35ms on Pinky. (For some weird reason, the
decompression of the payload also takes way longer than on other
platforms, although not as long as the ramstage. I have no explanation
for that and can't really think of a good way to figure it out... maybe
the Cortex-A12 is just terrible at some operation that LZMA uses a lot?)

Change-Id: I9f67f7537696ec09496483b16b59a8b73f4cb11b
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/234192
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
2014-12-10 01:59:47 +00:00
configs veyron: Add veyron_speedy board 2014-12-09 03:38:50 +00:00
documentation documentation: Add documentation for timestamp library 2014-11-14 23:57:04 +00:00
payloads libpayload: EHCI: Fix transaction error for interrupt transfer 2014-12-09 06:03:40 +00:00
src rk3288: Disable ramstage compression by default 2014-12-10 01:59:47 +00:00
util util: ipq8064: utility to create uber-SBL 2014-12-03 07:13:53 +00:00
.gitignore rmodules: add support for rmodtool 2014-03-31 22:25:57 +00:00
COMMIT-QUEUE.ini COMMIT-QUEUE.ini: Add documentation. 2013-11-01 14:08:42 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile Makefile: Fix dependency tracking for ramstage objects 2014-12-06 01:10:41 +00:00
Makefile.inc Makefile: Fix dependency tracking for ramstage objects 2014-12-06 01:10:41 +00:00
PRESUBMIT.cfg chromeos: Add PRESUBMIT.cfg 2013-05-01 14:31:10 -07:00
README Update README with newer version of the text from the web page 2011-06-15 10:16:33 +02:00
toolchain.inc arch/mips: Add base MIPS architecture support 2014-09-01 11:05:57 +00:00

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coreboot README
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
(firmware) found in most computers.  coreboot performs a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
payload.

With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
required.

coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * gcc / g++
 * make

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.