[PATCH v3 00/18] bootstd: Add a bootmeth for ChromiumOS on x86

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 11:29:40 CEST 2023


Hi Simon,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:04 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > This series adds a simple bootmeth for ChromiumOS on x86. It uses zimage
> > to boot the kernel.
> >
> > Full verified boot is not included at this stage - that is still a
> > separate chunk of code to be brought into standard boot at some point.
> > For now it just obtains the kernel and command line and boots. This should
> > be enough to boot Chrome OS from coreboot on all x86 machines in
> > circulation, although only Brya (2022) and Coral (2017) have been tested.
> >
> > ChromiumOS needs quite large kernel parameters, to hold the DM verity
> > settings and other pieces. This makes it painful to modify just one
> > parameter, since the whole cmdline must be adjusted at once. To cope with
> > this, a new cmdline-editing feature is provided: the 'bootflow cmdline'
> > command allows individual parameters to be added, modified and deleted.
> >
> > To deal with enabling debug console, a variant supports setting 'earlycon'
> > and 'console' automatically. The 'bdinfo' command is updated to show
> > serial-port info also.
> >
> > Booting the zimage is now done programmatically, rather than running
> > through the command-line interface. Minor tweaks are made to the coreboot
> > and coral config so that booting works correctly.
> >
> > Note that the ACPI tables are not updated with the required firmware
> > information in this series, so a warning is shown on boot. This will be
> > addressed later since it requires quite a bit of configuration.
> >
> > Finally, this fixes a recently introduced bug in unit testing and updates
> > the algorithm to avoid running flat-tree tests which don't actually use
> > the devicetree.
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Drop CONFIG_MISC and CONFIG_NVMEM
> > - Update commit message
> > - Separate out patch to restore test behaviour on failure
> >
>
> series applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!

Could you please look at the CI failure?
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-x86/-/pipelines/16890/failures

Regards,
Bin


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