[U-Boot] [PATCH 28/50] doc: board: Add coreboot board doc

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 07:34:13 UTC 2019


This extracts coreboot board specific information from README.x86,
converts plain text documentation to reST format and adds it to
Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
---

 doc/README.x86                  | 37 ------------------------------------
 doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/board/coreboot/index.rst    |  9 +++++++++
 doc/board/index.rst             |  1 +
 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
 create mode 100644 doc/board/coreboot/index.rst

diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
index 2374be9..c987439 100644
--- a/doc/README.x86
+++ b/doc/README.x86
@@ -39,14 +39,6 @@ Linux kernel as part of a FIT image. It also supports a compressed zImage.
 U-Boot supports loading an x86 VxWorks kernel. Please check README.vxworks
 for more details.
 
-Build Instructions for U-Boot as coreboot payload
--------------------------------------------------
-Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets
-on other architectures, like below:
-
-$ make coreboot_defconfig
-$ make all
-
 Build Instructions for U-Boot as BIOS replacement (bare mode)
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 Building a ROM version of U-Boot (hereafter referred to as u-boot.rom) is a
@@ -82,35 +74,6 @@ Device Tree Control  --->
 	...
 	(qemu-x86_q35) Default Device Tree for DT control
 
-Test with coreboot
-------------------
-For testing U-Boot as the coreboot payload, there are things that need be paid
-attention to. coreboot supports loading an ELF executable and a 32-bit plain
-binary, as well as other supported payloads. With the default configuration,
-U-Boot is set up to use a separate Device Tree Blob (dtb). As of today, the
-generated u-boot-dtb.bin needs to be packaged by the cbfstool utility (a tool
-provided by coreboot) manually as coreboot's 'make menuconfig' does not provide
-this capability yet. The command is as follows:
-
-# in the coreboot root directory
-$ ./build/util/cbfstool/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-flat-binary \
-  -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110000
-
-Make sure 0x1110000 matches CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, which is the symbol address
-of _x86boot_start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S).
-
-If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to
-use CONFIG_OF_EMBED instead of CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE.
-
-To enable video you must enable these options in coreboot:
-
-   - Set framebuffer graphics resolution (1280x1024 32k-color (1:5:5))
-   - Keep VESA framebuffer
-
-At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through
-the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This
-works correctly for link though.
-
 Test with QEMU for bare mode
 ----------------------------
 QEMU is a fancy emulator that can enable us to test U-Boot without access to
diff --git a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd97422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+.. sectionauthor:: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
+
+Coreboot
+========
+
+Build Instructions for U-Boot as coreboot payload
+-------------------------------------------------
+Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets
+on other architectures, like below::
+
+   $ make coreboot_defconfig
+   $ make all
+
+Test with coreboot
+------------------
+For testing U-Boot as the coreboot payload, there are things that need be paid
+attention to. coreboot supports loading an ELF executable and a 32-bit plain
+binary, as well as other supported payloads. With the default configuration,
+U-Boot is set up to use a separate Device Tree Blob (dtb). As of today, the
+generated u-boot-dtb.bin needs to be packaged by the cbfstool utility (a tool
+provided by coreboot) manually as coreboot's 'make menuconfig' does not provide
+this capability yet. The command is as follows::
+
+   # in the coreboot root directory
+   $ ./build/util/cbfstool/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-flat-binary \
+     -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110000
+
+Make sure 0x1110000 matches CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, which is the symbol address
+of _x86boot_start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S).
+
+If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to
+use CONFIG_OF_EMBED instead of CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE.
+
+To enable video you must enable these options in coreboot:
+
+   - Set framebuffer graphics resolution (1280x1024 32k-color (1:5:5))
+   - Keep VESA framebuffer
+
+At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through
+the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This
+works correctly for link though.
diff --git a/doc/board/coreboot/index.rst b/doc/board/coreboot/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d148db9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/board/coreboot/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+Coreboot
+========
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   coreboot
diff --git a/doc/board/index.rst b/doc/board/index.rst
index 59f745d..eb21a67 100644
--- a/doc/board/index.rst
+++ b/doc/board/index.rst
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ Board-specific doc
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   coreboot/index
    google/index
    intel/index
-- 
2.7.4



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