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Julius Werner 5b517fc46b arm: Prevent compilation of old, experimental SMP support
The ARM SMP feature was added a long time ago and has never really been
used by anyone since. We are still always compiling cpu_info() even
though we don't use it, and it makes some dangerous assumptions about
stack alignment that are not guaranteed anywhere.

I'm planning to change the way the stack boundaries are defined. Rather
than trying to work that into this unsafe, unused and hard to test
feature, I think we should just seal it off with police tape and make
sure that if anyone ever tries to use it again (which currently seems
unlikely), they get forced to do their due diligence on making sure it
works as intended.

BUG=None
TEST=Compiled Veyron_Pinky.

Change-Id: I8a60bd30e8b27a22bb3da68ca84daea99424dee9
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/219680
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix@chromium.org>
2014-10-03 09:09:30 +00:00
configs veyron: select rw romstage using vboot2 2014-09-25 04:09:06 +00:00
documentation sconfig: rename lapic_cluster -> cpu_cluster 2013-02-14 07:07:20 +01:00
payloads libpayload: EHCI: Support root-hub TT feature 2014-10-02 18:24:26 +00:00
src arm: Prevent compilation of old, experimental SMP support 2014-10-03 09:09:30 +00:00
util urara: use proper SOC name 2014-09-30 01:53:48 +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: Preprocess linker scripts and other general improvements 2014-10-02 07:02:10 +00:00
Makefile.inc Add predefined __ROMSTAGE__ and __RAMSTAGE__ macros 2014-10-02 07:02:23 +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.