The steps required to boot a Linux distribution from U-Boot on x86 are not
very complicated, but it is a good idea to have these written down in an
accessible place.
Document how to examine the boot media from U-Boot, how to load a kernel,
load a ramdisk, set the kernel boot arguments and start the kernel. With
these instructions Ubuntu boots mostly normally on Minnowmax.
Note that the TSC timer does not operate correctly and gives warnings in
the boot log. I expect that ACPI support will solve this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Add a cpu1 node to the device tree and enable the MP initialization
on QEMU targets (i440fx and q35).
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To try to reduce the pain of confusion of binary blobs, add MD5 checksums
for the current versions. This may worsen the situation as new versions
appear, but it should still be possible to obtain these versions, and thus
get a working setup.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
The layout of the ROM is a bit hard to discover by reading the code. Add
a table to make it easier.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Enable graphics support on Intel Crown Bay board With the help of
vgabios for Intel TunnelCreek IGD. Tested with an external LVDS
panel connected to X4 connector and SDVO adapter connected to X9
connector on the board.
Signed-off-by: Jian Luo <jian.luo4@boschrexroth.de>
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Move X86_OPTION_ROM_FILE & X86_OPTION_ROM_ADDR to arch/x86/Kconfig
and rename them to VGA_BIOS_FILE & VGA_BIOS_ADDR which depend on
HAVE_VGA_BIOS. The new names are consistent with other x86 binary
blob options like HAVE_FSP/FSP_FILE/FSP_ADDR.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Document U-Boot multi-processor support as well as configuration
tables like SFI and MP tables for SMP OS kernel.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Although the two qemu-x86 targets (i440fx and q35) share a lot in
common, they still have something that cannot easily handled in one
single device tree). Split to create two dedicated device tree files
and make the i440fx be the default build target.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It turns out that QEMU x86 emulated graphic card has a built-in
option ROM which can be run perfectly with native mode by U-Boot.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The descriptor provided with the FSP does not seem to work. Update the
instructions to use the descriptor from the original Intel firmware.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The FSP release version 001 for Intel Queensbay has a bug which
could cause random endless loop during the FspInit call. This bug
was published by Intel although Intel did not describe any details.
Describe this information in the x86 doc so that U-Boot Queensbay
support is invulnerable.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add some instructions about building U-Boot for Intel Galileo board.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This is a relatively low-cost x86 board in a small form factor. The main
peripherals are uSD, USB, HDMI, Ethernet and SATA. It uses an Atom 3800
series CPU. So far only the dual core 2GB variant is supported.
This uses the existing FSP support. Binary blobs are required to make this
board work. The microcode update is included as a patch (all 3000 lines of
it).
Change-Id: I0088c47fe87cf08ae635b343d32c332269062156
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Some information has been gleaned on tools and procedures for porting
U-Boot to different x86 platforms. Add a few notes to start things off.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Rather than requiring the Makefile to be modified, provide a build option to
enable the ROM to be built.
We cannot do this by default since it requires binary blobs. Without these
the build will fail.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Update README.x86 to include new build instructions for U-Boot as
the coreboot payload and testing considerations with coreboot.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to see the MTRR setup in U-Boot. Add a command
to list the state of the variable MTRR registers and allow them to be
changed.
Update the documentation to list some of the available commands.
This does not support fixed MTRRs as yet.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
(Use 'Link' as the name for the Chromebook Pixel consistently)
Change-Id: I158c88653978ff212334f6d4ffeaf49fa81baefe
Simon Glass
Bin Meng