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Julius Werner f4c8643b7c chromeos: Reverse FMAP signature constant to avoid having it in .rodata
Even though coreboot always hardcodes the FMAP offset, the same is not
possible for all other tools that manipulate ROM images. Some need to
manually find the FMAP by searching for it's magic number (ASCII
"__FMAP__"). If we do something like 'memcmp(fmap_buffer, "__FMAP__",
...) in coreboot code, it has the unfortunate side effect that the
compiler will output that very same magic number as a constant in the
.rodata section to compare against. Other tools may mistake this for the
"real" FMAP location and get confused.

This patch reverses the constant defined in coreboot and changes the
only use of it correspondingly. It is not impossible but extremely
unlikely (at the current state of the art) that any compiler would be
clever enough to understand this pattern and optimize it back to a
straight memcmp() (GCC 4.9 definitely doesn't), so it should solve the
problem at least for another few years/decades.

BRANCH=veyron
BUG=chromium:447051
TEST=Made sure the new binaries actually contain "__PAMF__" in their
.rodata. Booted Pinky. Independently corrupted both the first and the
last byte of the FMAP signature with a hex editor and confirmed that
signature check fails in both cases.

Change-Id: I725652ef2a77f7f99884b46498428c3d68cd0945
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/240723
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nojiri <dnojiri@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/242157
2015-01-21 01:17:29 +00:00
configs Brain: Initial import. 2015-01-21 01:16:33 +00:00
documentation documentation: Add documentation for timestamp library 2014-11-14 23:57:04 +00:00
payloads usb: dwc2: using a new FIFO allocation method 2015-01-21 01:17:25 +00:00
src chromeos: Reverse FMAP signature constant to avoid having it in .rodata 2015-01-21 01:17:29 +00:00
util timestamps: You can never have enough of them! 2014-12-10 02:00:24 +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 arm, arm64, mips: Add rough static stack size checks with -Wstack-usage 2015-01-21 01:16:47 +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.