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2# Copyright (C) 2014, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
3# Copyright (C) 2014, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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5# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
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7
8U-Boot on x86
9=============
10
11This document describes the information about U-Boot running on x86 targets,
12including supported boards, build instructions, todo list, etc.
13
14Status
15------
16U-Boot supports running as a coreboot [1] payload on x86. So far only Link
17(Chromebook Pixel) and QEMU [2] x86 targets have been tested, but it should
18work with minimal adjustments on other x86 boards since coreboot deals with
19most of the low-level details.
20
21U-Boot also supports booting directly from x86 reset vector, without coreboot.
22In this case, known as bare mode, from the fact that it runs on the
23'bare metal', U-Boot acts like a BIOS replacement. The following platforms
24are supported:
25
26   - Bayley Bay CRB
27   - Congatec QEVAL 2.0 & conga-QA3/E3845
28   - Cougar Canyon 2 CRB
29   - Crown Bay CRB
30   - Galileo
31   - Link (Chromebook Pixel)
32   - Minnowboard MAX
33   - Samus (Chromebook Pixel 2015)
34   - QEMU x86
35
36As for loading an OS, U-Boot supports directly booting a 32-bit or 64-bit
37Linux kernel as part of a FIT image. It also supports a compressed zImage.
38U-Boot supports loading an x86 VxWorks kernel. Please check README.vxworks
39for more details.
40
41Build Instructions for U-Boot as coreboot payload
42-------------------------------------------------
43Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets
44on other architectures, like below:
45
46$ make coreboot-x86_defconfig
47$ make all
48
49Note this default configuration will build a U-Boot payload for the QEMU board.
50To build a coreboot payload against another board, you can change the build
51configuration during the 'make menuconfig' process.
52
53x86 architecture  --->
54	...
55	(qemu-x86) Board configuration file
56	(qemu-x86_i440fx) Board Device Tree Source (dts) file
57	(0x01920000) Board specific Cache-As-RAM (CAR) address
58	(0x4000) Board specific Cache-As-RAM (CAR) size
59
60Change the 'Board configuration file' and 'Board Device Tree Source (dts) file'
61to point to a new board. You can also change the Cache-As-RAM (CAR) related
62settings here if the default values do not fit your new board.
63
64Build Instructions for U-Boot as BIOS replacement (bare mode)
65-------------------------------------------------------------
66Building a ROM version of U-Boot (hereafter referred to as u-boot.rom) is a
67little bit tricky, as generally it requires several binary blobs which are not
68shipped in the U-Boot source tree. Due to this reason, the u-boot.rom build is
69not turned on by default in the U-Boot source tree. Firstly, you need turn it
70on by enabling the ROM build:
71
72$ export BUILD_ROM=y
73
74This tells the Makefile to build u-boot.rom as a target.
75
76---
77
78Chromebook Link specific instructions for bare mode:
79
80First, you need the following binary blobs:
81
82* descriptor.bin - Intel flash descriptor
83* me.bin - Intel Management Engine
84* mrc.bin - Memory Reference Code, which sets up SDRAM
85* video ROM - sets up the display
86
87You can get these binary blobs by:
88
89$ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/blobs.git
90$ cd blobs
91
92Find the following files:
93
94* ./mainboard/google/link/descriptor.bin
95* ./mainboard/google/link/me.bin
96* ./northbridge/intel/sandybridge/systemagent-r6.bin
97
98The 3rd one should be renamed to mrc.bin.
99As for the video ROM, you can get it here [3] and rename it to vga.bin.
100Make sure all these binary blobs are put in the board directory.
101
102Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom:
103
104$ make chromebook_link_defconfig
105$ make all
106
107---
108
109Chromebook Samus (2015 Pixel) instructions for bare mode:
110
111First, you need the following binary blobs:
112
113* descriptor.bin - Intel flash descriptor
114* me.bin - Intel Management Engine
115* mrc.bin - Memory Reference Code, which sets up SDRAM
116* refcode.elf - Additional Reference code
117* vga.bin - video ROM, which sets up the display
118
119If you have a samus you can obtain them from your flash, for example, in
120developer mode on the Chromebook (use Ctrl-Alt-F2 to obtain a terminal and
121log in as 'root'):
122
123   cd /tmp
124   flashrom -w samus.bin
125   scp samus.bin username@ip_address:/path/to/somewhere
126
127If not see the coreboot tree [4] where you can use:
128
129   bash crosfirmware.sh samus
130
131to get the image. There is also an 'extract_blobs.sh' scripts that you can use
132on the 'coreboot-Google_Samus.*' file to short-circuit some of the below.
133
134Then 'ifdtool -x samus.bin' on your development machine will produce:
135
136   flashregion_0_flashdescriptor.bin
137   flashregion_1_bios.bin
138   flashregion_2_intel_me.bin
139
140Rename flashregion_0_flashdescriptor.bin to descriptor.bin
141Rename flashregion_2_intel_me.bin to me.bin
142You can ignore flashregion_1_bios.bin - it is not used.
143
144To get the rest, use 'cbfstool samus.bin print':
145
146samus.bin: 8192 kB, bootblocksize 2864, romsize 8388608, offset 0x700000
147alignment: 64 bytes, architecture: x86
148
149Name                           Offset     Type         Size
150cmos_layout.bin                0x700000   cmos_layout  1164
151pci8086,0406.rom               0x7004c0   optionrom    65536
152spd.bin                        0x710500   (unknown)    4096
153cpu_microcode_blob.bin         0x711540   microcode    70720
154fallback/romstage              0x722a00   stage        54210
155fallback/ramstage              0x72fe00   stage        96382
156config                         0x7476c0   raw          6075
157fallback/vboot                 0x748ec0   stage        15980
158fallback/refcode               0x74cd80   stage        75578
159fallback/payload               0x75f500   payload      62878
160u-boot.dtb                     0x76eb00   (unknown)    5318
161(empty)                        0x770000   null         196504
162mrc.bin                        0x79ffc0   (unknown)    222876
163(empty)                        0x7d66c0   null         167320
164
165You can extract what you need:
166
167   cbfstool samus.bin extract -n pci8086,0406.rom -f vga.bin
168   cbfstool samus.bin extract -n fallback/refcode -f refcode.rmod
169   cbfstool samus.bin extract -n mrc.bin -f mrc.bin
170   cbfstool samus.bin extract -n fallback/refcode -f refcode.bin -U
171
172Note that the -U flag is only supported by the latest cbfstool. It unpacks
173and decompresses the stage to produce a coreboot rmodule. This is a simple
174representation of an ELF file. You need the patch "Support decoding a stage
175with compression".
176
177Put all 5 files into board/google/chromebook_samus.
178
179Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom:
180
181$ make chromebook_link_defconfig
182$ make all
183
184If you are using em100, then this command will flash write -Boot:
185
186   em100 -s -d filename.rom -c W25Q64CV -r
187
188---
189
190Intel Crown Bay specific instructions for bare mode:
191
192U-Boot support of Intel Crown Bay board [4] relies on a binary blob called
193Firmware Support Package [5] to perform all the necessary initialization steps
194as documented in the BIOS Writer Guide, including initialization of the CPU,
195memory controller, chipset and certain bus interfaces.
196
197Download the Intel FSP for Atom E6xx series and Platform Controller Hub EG20T,
198install it on your host and locate the FSP binary blob. Note this platform
199also requires a Chipset Micro Code (CMC) state machine binary to be present in
200the SPI flash where u-boot.rom resides, and this CMC binary blob can be found
201in this FSP package too.
202
203* ./FSP/QUEENSBAY_FSP_GOLD_001_20-DECEMBER-2013.fd
204* ./Microcode/C0_22211.BIN
205
206Rename the first one to fsp.bin and second one to cmc.bin and put them in the
207board directory.
208
209Note the FSP release version 001 has a bug which could cause random endless
210loop during the FspInit call. This bug was published by Intel although Intel
211did not describe any details. We need manually apply the patch to the FSP
212binary using any hex editor (eg: bvi). Go to the offset 0x1fcd8 of the FSP
213binary, change the following five bytes values from orginally E8 42 FF FF FF
214to B8 00 80 0B 00.
215
216As for the video ROM, you need manually extract it from the Intel provided
217BIOS for Crown Bay here [6], using the AMI MMTool [7]. Check PCI option ROM
218ID 8086:4108, extract and save it as vga.bin in the board directory.
219
220Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
221
222$ make crownbay_defconfig
223$ make all
224
225---
226
227Intel Cougar Canyon 2 specific instructions for bare mode:
228
229This uses Intel FSP for 3rd generation Intel Core and Intel Celeron processors
230with mobile Intel HM76 and QM77 chipsets platform. Download it from Intel FSP
231website and put the .fd file (CHIEFRIVER_FSP_GOLD_001_09-OCTOBER-2013.fd at the
232time of writing) in the board directory and rename it to fsp.bin.
233
234Now build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
235
236$ make cougarcanyon2_defconfig
237$ make all
238
239The board has two 8MB SPI flashes mounted, which are called SPI-0 and SPI-1 in
240the board manual. The SPI-0 flash should have flash descriptor plus ME firmware
241and SPI-1 flash is used to store U-Boot. For convenience, the complete 8MB SPI-0
242flash image is included in the FSP package (named Rom00_8M_MB_PPT.bin). Program
243this image to the SPI-0 flash according to the board manual just once and we are
244all set. For programming U-Boot we just need to program SPI-1 flash.
245
246---
247
248Intel Bay Trail based board instructions for bare mode:
249
250This uses as FSP as with Crown Bay, except it is for the Atom E3800 series.
251Two boards that use this configuration are Bayley Bay and Minnowboard MAX.
252Download this and get the .fd file (BAYTRAIL_FSP_GOLD_003_16-SEP-2014.fd at
253the time of writing). Put it in the corresponding board directory and rename
254it to fsp.bin.
255
256Obtain the VGA RAM (Vga.dat at the time of writing) and put it into the same
257board directory as vga.bin.
258
259You still need two more binary blobs. For Bayley Bay, they can be extracted
260from the sample SPI image provided in the FSP (SPI.bin at the time of writing).
261
262   $ ./tools/ifdtool -x BayleyBay/SPI.bin
263   $ cp flashregion_0_flashdescriptor.bin board/intel/bayleybay/descriptor.bin
264   $ cp flashregion_2_intel_me.bin board/intel/bayleybay/me.bin
265
266For Minnowboard MAX, we can reuse the same ME firmware above, but for flash
267descriptor, we need get that somewhere else, as the one above does not seem to
268work, probably because it is not designed for the Minnowboard MAX. Now download
269the original firmware image for this board from:
270
271http://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/2014-WW42.4-MinnowBoardMax.73-64-bit.bin_Release.zip
272
273Unzip it:
274
275   $ unzip 2014-WW42.4-MinnowBoardMax.73-64-bit.bin_Release.zip
276
277Use ifdtool in the U-Boot tools directory to extract the images from that
278file, for example:
279
280   $ ./tools/ifdtool -x MNW2MAX1.X64.0073.R02.1409160934.bin
281
282This will provide the descriptor file - copy this into the correct place:
283
284   $ cp flashregion_0_flashdescriptor.bin board/intel/minnowmax/descriptor.bin
285
286Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
287Note: below are examples/information for Minnowboard MAX.
288
289$ make minnowmax_defconfig
290$ make all
291
292Checksums are as follows (but note that newer versions will invalidate this):
293
294$ md5sum -b board/intel/minnowmax/*.bin
295ffda9a3b94df5b74323afb328d51e6b4  board/intel/minnowmax/descriptor.bin
29669f65b9a580246291d20d08cbef9d7c5  board/intel/minnowmax/fsp.bin
297894a97d371544ec21de9c3e8e1716c4b  board/intel/minnowmax/me.bin
298a2588537da387da592a27219d56e9962  board/intel/minnowmax/vga.bin
299
300The ROM image is broken up into these parts:
301
302Offset   Description         Controlling config
303------------------------------------------------------------
304000000   descriptor.bin      Hard-coded to 0 in ifdtool
305001000   me.bin              Set by the descriptor
306500000   <spare>
3076ef000   Environment         CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET
3086f0000   MRC cache           CONFIG_ENABLE_MRC_CACHE
309700000   u-boot-dtb.bin      CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
310790000   vga.bin             CONFIG_VGA_BIOS_ADDR
3117c0000   fsp.bin             CONFIG_FSP_ADDR
3127f8000   <spare>             (depends on size of fsp.bin)
3137ff800   U-Boot 16-bit boot  CONFIG_SYS_X86_START16
314
315Overall ROM image size is controlled by CONFIG_ROM_SIZE.
316
317Note that the debug version of the FSP is bigger in size. If this version
318is used, CONFIG_FSP_ADDR needs to be configured to 0xfffb0000 instead of
319the default value 0xfffc0000.
320
321---
322
323Intel Galileo instructions for bare mode:
324
325Only one binary blob is needed for Remote Management Unit (RMU) within Intel
326Quark SoC. Not like FSP, U-Boot does not call into the binary. The binary is
327needed by the Quark SoC itself.
328
329You can get the binary blob from Quark Board Support Package from Intel website:
330
331* ./QuarkSocPkg/QuarkNorthCluster/Binary/QuarkMicrocode/RMU.bin
332
333Rename the file and put it to the board directory by:
334
335   $ cp RMU.bin board/intel/galileo/rmu.bin
336
337Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
338
339$ make galileo_defconfig
340$ make all
341
342---
343
344QEMU x86 target instructions for bare mode:
345
346To build u-boot.rom for QEMU x86 targets, just simply run
347
348$ make qemu-x86_defconfig
349$ make all
350
351Note this default configuration will build a U-Boot for the QEMU x86 i440FX
352board. To build a U-Boot against QEMU x86 Q35 board, you can change the build
353configuration during the 'make menuconfig' process like below:
354
355Device Tree Control  --->
356	...
357	(qemu-x86_q35) Default Device Tree for DT control
358
359Test with coreboot
360------------------
361For testing U-Boot as the coreboot payload, there are things that need be paid
362attention to. coreboot supports loading an ELF executable and a 32-bit plain
363binary, as well as other supported payloads. With the default configuration,
364U-Boot is set up to use a separate Device Tree Blob (dtb). As of today, the
365generated u-boot-dtb.bin needs to be packaged by the cbfstool utility (a tool
366provided by coreboot) manually as coreboot's 'make menuconfig' does not provide
367this capability yet. The command is as follows:
368
369# in the coreboot root directory
370$ ./build/util/cbfstool/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-flat-binary \
371  -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110000
372
373Make sure 0x1110000 matches CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, which is the symbol address
374of _x86boot_start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S).
375
376If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to
377use CONFIG_OF_EMBED instead of CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE.
378
379To enable video you must enable these options in coreboot:
380
381   - Set framebuffer graphics resolution (1280x1024 32k-color (1:5:5))
382   - Keep VESA framebuffer
383
384And include coreboot_fb.dtsi in your board's device tree source file, like:
385
386   /include/ "coreboot_fb.dtsi"
387
388At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through
389the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This
390works correctly for link though.
391
392Note: coreboot framebuffer driver does not work on QEMU. The reason is unknown
393at this point. Patches are welcome if you figure out anything wrong.
394
395Test with QEMU for bare mode
396----------------------------
397QEMU is a fancy emulator that can enable us to test U-Boot without access to
398a real x86 board. Please make sure your QEMU version is 2.3.0 or above test
399U-Boot. To launch QEMU with u-boot.rom, call QEMU as follows:
400
401$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios path/to/u-boot.rom
402
403This will instantiate an emulated x86 board with i440FX and PIIX chipset. QEMU
404also supports emulating an x86 board with Q35 and ICH9 based chipset, which is
405also supported by U-Boot. To instantiate such a machine, call QEMU with:
406
407$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios path/to/u-boot.rom -M q35
408
409Note by default QEMU instantiated boards only have 128 MiB system memory. But
410it is enough to have U-Boot boot and function correctly. You can increase the
411system memory by pass '-m' parameter to QEMU if you want more memory:
412
413$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios path/to/u-boot.rom -m 1024
414
415This creates a board with 1 GiB system memory. Currently U-Boot for QEMU only
416supports 3 GiB maximum system memory and reserves the last 1 GiB address space
417for PCI device memory-mapped I/O and other stuff, so the maximum value of '-m'
418would be 3072.
419
420QEMU emulates a graphic card which U-Boot supports. Removing '-nographic' will
421show QEMU's VGA console window. Note this will disable QEMU's serial output.
422If you want to check both consoles, use '-serial stdio'.
423
424Multicore is also supported by QEMU via '-smp n' where n is the number of cores
425to instantiate. Note, the maximum supported CPU number in QEMU is 255.
426
427The fw_cfg interface in QEMU also provides information about kernel data,
428initrd, command-line arguments and more. U-Boot supports directly accessing
429these informtion from fw_cfg interface, which saves the time of loading them
430from hard disk or network again, through emulated devices. To use it , simply
431providing them in QEMU command line:
432
433$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios path/to/u-boot.rom -m 1024 -kernel /path/to/bzImage
434    -append 'root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0' -initrd /path/to/initrd -smp 8
435
436Note: -initrd and -smp are both optional
437
438Then start QEMU, in U-Boot command line use the following U-Boot command to
439setup kernel:
440
441 => qfw
442qfw - QEMU firmware interface
443
444Usage:
445qfw <command>
446    - list                             : print firmware(s) currently loaded
447    - cpus                             : print online cpu number
448    - load <kernel addr> <initrd addr> : load kernel and initrd (if any) and setup for zboot
449
450=> qfw load
451loading kernel to address 01000000 size 5d9d30 initrd 04000000 size 1b1ab50
452
453Here the kernel (bzImage) is loaded to 01000000 and initrd is to 04000000. Then,
454'zboot' can be used to boot the kernel:
455
456=> zboot 01000000 - 04000000 1b1ab50
457
458CPU Microcode
459-------------
460Modern CPUs usually require a special bit stream called microcode [8] to be
461loaded on the processor after power up in order to function properly. U-Boot
462has already integrated these as hex dumps in the source tree.
463
464SMP Support
465-----------
466On a multicore system, U-Boot is executed on the bootstrap processor (BSP).
467Additional application processors (AP) can be brought up by U-Boot. In order to
468have an SMP kernel to discover all of the available processors, U-Boot needs to
469prepare configuration tables which contain the multi-CPUs information before
470loading the OS kernel. Currently U-Boot supports generating two types of tables
471for SMP, called Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) [9] and Multi-Processor (MP)
472[10] tables. The writing of these two tables are controlled by two Kconfig
473options GENERATE_SFI_TABLE and GENERATE_MP_TABLE.
474
475Driver Model
476------------
477x86 has been converted to use driver model for serial, GPIO, SPI, SPI flash,
478keyboard, real-time clock, USB. Video is in progress.
479
480Device Tree
481-----------
482x86 uses device tree to configure the board thus requires CONFIG_OF_CONTROL to
483be turned on. Not every device on the board is configured via device tree, but
484more and more devices will be added as time goes by. Check out the directory
485arch/x86/dts/ for these device tree source files.
486
487Useful Commands
488---------------
489In keeping with the U-Boot philosophy of providing functions to check and
490adjust internal settings, there are several x86-specific commands that may be
491useful:
492
493fsp  - Display information about Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP).
494	 This is only available on platforms which use FSP, mostly Atom.
495iod  - Display I/O memory
496iow  - Write I/O memory
497mtrr - List and set the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR). These are used to
498	 tell the CPU whether memory is cacheable and if so the cache write
499	 mode to use. U-Boot sets up some reasonable values but you can
500	 adjust then with this command.
501
502Booting Ubuntu
503--------------
504As an example of how to set up your boot flow with U-Boot, here are
505instructions for starting Ubuntu from U-Boot. These instructions have been
506tested on Minnowboard MAX with a SATA drive but are equally applicable on
507other platforms and other media. There are really only four steps and it's a
508very simple script, but a more detailed explanation is provided here for
509completeness.
510
511Note: It is possible to set up U-Boot to boot automatically using syslinux.
512It could also use the grub.cfg file (/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg) to obtain the
513GUID. If you figure these out, please post patches to this README.
514
515Firstly, you will need Ubuntu installed on an available disk. It should be
516possible to make U-Boot start a USB start-up disk but for now let's assume
517that you used another boot loader to install Ubuntu.
518
519Use the U-Boot command line to find the UUID of the partition you want to
520boot. For example our disk is SCSI device 0:
521
522=> part list scsi 0
523
524Partition Map for SCSI device 0  --   Partition Type: EFI
525
526   Part	Start LBA	End LBA		Name
527	Attributes
528	Type GUID
529	Partition GUID
530   1	0x00000800	0x001007ff	""
531	attrs:	0x0000000000000000
532	type:	c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
533	guid:	9d02e8e4-4d59-408f-a9b0-fd497bc9291c
534   2	0x00100800	0x037d8fff	""
535	attrs:	0x0000000000000000
536	type:	0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
537	guid:	965c59ee-1822-4326-90d2-b02446050059
538   3	0x037d9000	0x03ba27ff	""
539	attrs:	0x0000000000000000
540	type:	0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f
541	guid:	2c4282bd-1e82-4bcf-a5ff-51dedbf39f17
542   =>
543
544This shows that your SCSI disk has three partitions. The really long hex
545strings are called Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs). You can look up the
546'type' ones here [11]. On this disk the first partition is for EFI and is in
547VFAT format (DOS/Windows):
548
549   => fatls scsi 0:1
550               efi/
551
552   0 file(s), 1 dir(s)
553
554
555Partition 2 is 'Linux filesystem data' so that will be our root disk. It is
556in ext2 format:
557
558   => ext2ls scsi 0:2
559   <DIR>       4096 .
560   <DIR>       4096 ..
561   <DIR>      16384 lost+found
562   <DIR>       4096 boot
563   <DIR>      12288 etc
564   <DIR>       4096 media
565   <DIR>       4096 bin
566   <DIR>       4096 dev
567   <DIR>       4096 home
568   <DIR>       4096 lib
569   <DIR>       4096 lib64
570   <DIR>       4096 mnt
571   <DIR>       4096 opt
572   <DIR>       4096 proc
573   <DIR>       4096 root
574   <DIR>       4096 run
575   <DIR>      12288 sbin
576   <DIR>       4096 srv
577   <DIR>       4096 sys
578   <DIR>       4096 tmp
579   <DIR>       4096 usr
580   <DIR>       4096 var
581   <SYM>         33 initrd.img
582   <SYM>         30 vmlinuz
583   <DIR>       4096 cdrom
584   <SYM>         33 initrd.img.old
585   =>
586
587and if you look in the /boot directory you will see the kernel:
588
589   => ext2ls scsi 0:2 /boot
590   <DIR>       4096 .
591   <DIR>       4096 ..
592   <DIR>       4096 efi
593   <DIR>       4096 grub
594            3381262 System.map-3.13.0-32-generic
595            1162712 abi-3.13.0-32-generic
596             165611 config-3.13.0-32-generic
597             176500 memtest86+.bin
598             178176 memtest86+.elf
599             178680 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
600            5798112 vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic
601             165762 config-3.13.0-58-generic
602            1165129 abi-3.13.0-58-generic
603            5823136 vmlinuz-3.13.0-58-generic
604           19215259 initrd.img-3.13.0-58-generic
605            3391763 System.map-3.13.0-58-generic
606            5825048 vmlinuz-3.13.0-58-generic.efi.signed
607           28304443 initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic
608   =>
609
610The 'vmlinuz' files contain a packaged Linux kernel. The format is a kind of
611self-extracting compressed file mixed with some 'setup' configuration data.
612Despite its size (uncompressed it is >10MB) this only includes a basic set of
613device drivers, enough to boot on most hardware types.
614
615The 'initrd' files contain a RAM disk. This is something that can be loaded
616into RAM and will appear to Linux like a disk. Ubuntu uses this to hold lots
617of drivers for whatever hardware you might have. It is loaded before the
618real root disk is accessed.
619
620The numbers after the end of each file are the version. Here it is Linux
621version 3.13. You can find the source code for this in the Linux tree with
622the tag v3.13. The '.0' allows for additional Linux releases to fix problems,
623but normally this is not needed. The '-58' is used by Ubuntu. Each time they
624release a new kernel they increment this number. New Ubuntu versions might
625include kernel patches to fix reported bugs. Stable kernels can exist for
626some years so this number can get quite high.
627
628The '.efi.signed' kernel is signed for EFI's secure boot. U-Boot has its own
629secure boot mechanism - see [12] [13] and cannot read .efi files at present.
630
631To boot Ubuntu from U-Boot the steps are as follows:
632
6331. Set up the boot arguments. Use the GUID for the partition you want to
634boot:
635
636   => setenv bootargs root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/965c59ee-1822-4326-90d2-b02446050059 ro
637
638Here root= tells Linux the location of its root disk. The disk is specified
639by its GUID, using '/dev/disk/by-partuuid/', a Linux path to a 'directory'
640containing all the GUIDs Linux has found. When it starts up, there will be a
641file in that directory with this name in it. It is also possible to use a
642device name here, see later.
643
6442. Load the kernel. Since it is an ext2/4 filesystem we can do:
645
646   => ext2load scsi 0:2 03000000 /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-58-generic
647
648The address 30000000 is arbitrary, but there seem to be problems with using
649small addresses (sometimes Linux cannot find the ramdisk). This is 48MB into
650the start of RAM (which is at 0 on x86).
651
6523. Load the ramdisk (to 64MB):
653
654   => ext2load scsi 0:2 04000000 /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-58-generic
655
6564. Start up the kernel. We need to know the size of the ramdisk, but can use
657a variable for that. U-Boot sets 'filesize' to the size of the last file it
658loaded.
659
660   => zboot 03000000 0 04000000 ${filesize}
661
662Type 'help zboot' if you want to see what the arguments are. U-Boot on x86 is
663quite verbose when it boots a kernel. You should see these messages from
664U-Boot:
665
666   Valid Boot Flag
667   Setup Size = 0x00004400
668   Magic signature found
669   Using boot protocol version 2.0c
670   Linux kernel version 3.13.0-58-generic (buildd@allspice) #97-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 8 02:56:15 UTC 2015
671   Building boot_params at 0x00090000
672   Loading bzImage at address 100000 (5805728 bytes)
673   Magic signature found
674   Initial RAM disk at linear address 0x04000000, size 19215259 bytes
675   Kernel command line: "root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/965c59ee-1822-4326-90d2-b02446050059 ro"
676
677   Starting kernel ...
678
679U-Boot prints out some bootstage timing. This is more useful if you put the
680above commands into a script since then it will be faster.
681
682   Timer summary in microseconds:
683          Mark    Elapsed  Stage
684             0          0  reset
685       241,535    241,535  board_init_r
686     2,421,611  2,180,076  id=64
687     2,421,790        179  id=65
688     2,428,215      6,425  main_loop
689    48,860,584 46,432,369  start_kernel
690
691   Accumulated time:
692                  240,329  ahci
693                1,422,704  vesa display
694
695Now the kernel actually starts: (if you want to examine kernel boot up message
696on the serial console, append "console=ttyS0,115200" to the kernel command line)
697
698   [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
699   [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
700   [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
701   [    0.000000] Linux version 3.13.0-58-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #97-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 8 02:56:15 UTC 2015 (Ubuntu 3.13.0-58.97-generic 3.13.11-ckt22)
702   [    0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/965c59ee-1822-4326-90d2-b02446050059 ro console=ttyS0,115200
703
704It continues for a long time. Along the way you will see it pick up your
705ramdisk:
706
707   [    0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x04000000-0x05253fff]
708...
709   [    0.788540] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
710   [    1.540111] Freeing initrd memory: 18768K (ffff880004000000 - ffff880005254000)
711...
712
713Later it actually starts using it:
714
715   Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
716
717You should also see your boot disk turn up:
718
719   [    4.357243] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ADATA SP310      5.2  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
720   [    4.366860] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 62533296 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
721   [    4.375677] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
722   [    4.381859] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
723   [    4.387452] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
724   [    4.399535]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
725
726Linux has found the three partitions (sda1-3). Mercifully it doesn't print out
727the GUIDs. In step 1 above we could have used:
728
729   setenv bootargs root=/dev/sda2 ro
730
731instead of the GUID. However if you add another drive to your board the
732numbering may change whereas the GUIDs will not. So if your boot partition
733becomes sdb2, it will still boot. For embedded systems where you just want to
734boot the first disk, you have that option.
735
736The last thing you will see on the console is mention of plymouth (which
737displays the Ubuntu start-up screen) and a lot of 'Starting' messages:
738
739 * Starting Mount filesystems on boot                                    [ OK ]
740
741After a pause you should see a login screen on your display and you are done.
742
743If you want to put this in a script you can use something like this:
744
745   setenv bootargs root=UUID=b2aaf743-0418-4d90-94cc-3e6108d7d968 ro
746   setenv boot zboot 03000000 0 04000000 \${filesize}
747   setenv bootcmd "ext2load scsi 0:2 03000000 /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-58-generic; ext2load scsi 0:2 04000000 /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-58-generic; run boot"
748   saveenv
749
750The \ is to tell the shell not to evaluate ${filesize} as part of the setenv
751command.
752
753You can also bake this behaviour into your build by hard-coding the
754environment variables if you add this to minnowmax.h:
755
756#undef CONFIG_BOOTARGS
757#undef CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
758
759#define CONFIG_BOOTARGS		\
760	"root=/dev/sda2 ro"
761#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND	\
762	"ext2load scsi 0:2 03000000 /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-58-generic; " \
763	"ext2load scsi 0:2 04000000 /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-58-generic; " \
764	"run boot"
765
766#undef CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
767#define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS "boot=zboot 03000000 0 04000000 ${filesize}"
768
769Test with SeaBIOS
770-----------------
771SeaBIOS [14] is an open source implementation of a 16-bit x86 BIOS. It can run
772in an emulator or natively on x86 hardware with the use of U-Boot. With its
773help, we can boot some OSes that require 16-bit BIOS services like Windows/DOS.
774
775As U-Boot, we have to manually create a table where SeaBIOS gets various system
776information (eg: E820) from. The table unfortunately has to follow the coreboot
777table format as SeaBIOS currently supports booting as a coreboot payload.
778
779To support loading SeaBIOS, U-Boot should be built with CONFIG_SEABIOS on.
780Booting SeaBIOS is done via U-Boot's bootelf command, like below:
781
782   => tftp bios.bin.elf;bootelf
783   Using e1000#0 device
784   TFTP from server 10.10.0.100; our IP address is 10.10.0.108
785   ...
786   Bytes transferred = 122124 (1dd0c hex)
787   ## Starting application at 0x000ff06e ...
788   SeaBIOS (version rel-1.9.0)
789   ...
790
791bios.bin.elf is the SeaBIOS image built from SeaBIOS source tree.
792Make sure it is built as follows:
793
794   $ make menuconfig
795
796Inside the "General Features" menu, select "Build for coreboot" as the
797"Build Target". Inside the "Debugging" menu, turn on "Serial port debugging"
798so that we can see something as soon as SeaBIOS boots. Leave other options
799as in their default state. Then,
800
801   $ make
802   ...
803   Total size: 121888  Fixed: 66496  Free: 9184 (used 93.0% of 128KiB rom)
804   Creating out/bios.bin.elf
805
806Currently this is tested on QEMU x86 target with U-Boot chain-loading SeaBIOS
807to install/boot a Windows XP OS (below for example command to install Windows).
808
809   # Create a 10G disk.img as the virtual hard disk
810   $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 10G
811
812   # Install a Windows XP OS from an ISO image 'winxp.iso'
813   $ qemu-system-i386 -serial stdio -bios u-boot.rom -hda disk.img -cdrom winxp.iso -smp 2 -m 512
814
815   # Boot a Windows XP OS installed on the virutal hard disk
816   $ qemu-system-i386 -serial stdio -bios u-boot.rom -hda disk.img -smp 2 -m 512
817
818This is also tested on Intel Crown Bay board with a PCIe graphics card, booting
819SeaBIOS then chain-loading a GRUB on a USB drive, then Linux kernel finally.
820
821If you are using Intel Integrated Graphics Device (IGD) as the primary display
822device on your board, SeaBIOS needs to be patched manually to get its VGA ROM
823loaded and run by SeaBIOS. SeaBIOS locates VGA ROM via the PCI expansion ROM
824register, but IGD device does not have its VGA ROM mapped by this register.
825Its VGA ROM is packaged as part of u-boot.rom at a configurable flash address
826which is unknown to SeaBIOS. An example patch is needed for SeaBIOS below:
827
828diff --git a/src/optionroms.c b/src/optionroms.c
829index 65f7fe0..c7b6f5e 100644
830--- a/src/optionroms.c
831+++ b/src/optionroms.c
832@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ init_pcirom(struct pci_device *pci, int isvga, u64 *sources)
833         rom = deploy_romfile(file);
834     else if (RunPCIroms > 1 || (RunPCIroms == 1 && isvga))
835         rom = map_pcirom(pci);
836+    if (pci->bdf == pci_to_bdf(0, 2, 0))
837+        rom = (struct rom_header *)0xfff90000;
838     if (! rom)
839         // No ROM present.
840         return;
841
842Note: the patch above expects IGD device is at PCI b.d.f 0.2.0 and its VGA ROM
843is at 0xfff90000 which corresponds to CONFIG_VGA_BIOS_ADDR on Minnowboard MAX.
844Change these two accordingly if this is not the case on your board.
845
846Development Flow
847----------------
848These notes are for those who want to port U-Boot to a new x86 platform.
849
850Since x86 CPUs boot from SPI flash, a SPI flash emulator is a good investment.
851The Dediprog em100 can be used on Linux. The em100 tool is available here:
852
853   http://review.coreboot.org/p/em100.git
854
855On Minnowboard Max the following command line can be used:
856
857   sudo em100 -s -p LOW -d u-boot.rom -c W25Q64DW -r
858
859A suitable clip for connecting over the SPI flash chip is here:
860
861   http://www.dediprog.com/pd/programmer-accessories/EM-TC-8
862
863This allows you to override the SPI flash contents for development purposes.
864Typically you can write to the em100 in around 1200ms, considerably faster
865than programming the real flash device each time. The only important
866limitation of the em100 is that it only supports SPI bus speeds up to 20MHz.
867This means that images must be set to boot with that speed. This is an
868Intel-specific feature - e.g. tools/ifttool has an option to set the SPI
869speed in the SPI descriptor region.
870
871If your chip/board uses an Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) it is fairly
872easy to fit it in. You can follow the Minnowboard Max implementation, for
873example. Hopefully you will just need to create new files similar to those
874in arch/x86/cpu/baytrail which provide Bay Trail support.
875
876If you are not using an FSP you have more freedom and more responsibility.
877The ivybridge support works this way, although it still uses a ROM for
878graphics and still has binary blobs containing Intel code. You should aim to
879support all important peripherals on your platform including video and storage.
880Use the device tree for configuration where possible.
881
882For the microcode you can create a suitable device tree file using the
883microcode tool:
884
885  ./tools/microcode-tool -d microcode.dat -m <model> create
886
887or if you only have header files and not the full Intel microcode.dat database:
888
889  ./tools/microcode-tool -H BAY_TRAIL_FSP_KIT/Microcode/M0130673322.h \
890	-H BAY_TRAIL_FSP_KIT/Microcode/M0130679901.h \
891	-m all create
892
893These are written to arch/x86/dts/microcode/ by default.
894
895Note that it is possible to just add the micrcode for your CPU if you know its
896model. U-Boot prints this information when it starts
897
898   CPU: x86_64, vendor Intel, device 30673h
899
900so here we can use the M0130673322 file.
901
902If you platform can display POST codes on two little 7-segment displays on
903the board, then you can use post_code() calls from C or assembler to monitor
904boot progress. This can be good for debugging.
905
906If not, you can try to get serial working as early as possible. The early
907debug serial port may be useful here. See setup_internal_uart() for an example.
908
909During the U-Boot porting, one of the important steps is to write correct PIRQ
910routing information in the board device tree. Without it, device drivers in the
911Linux kernel won't function correctly due to interrupt is not working. Please
912refer to U-Boot doc [15] for the device tree bindings of Intel interrupt router.
913Here we have more details on the intel,pirq-routing property below.
914
915	intel,pirq-routing = <
916		PCI_BDF(0, 2, 0) INTA PIRQA
917		...
918	>;
919
920As you see each entry has 3 cells. For the first one, we need describe all pci
921devices mounted on the board. For SoC devices, normally there is a chapter on
922the chipset datasheet which lists all the available PCI devices. For example on
923Bay Trail, this is chapter 4.3 (PCI configuration space). For the second one, we
924can get the interrupt pin either from datasheet or hardware via U-Boot shell.
925The reliable source is the hardware as sometimes chipset datasheet is not 100%
926up-to-date. Type 'pci header' plus the device's pci bus/device/function number
927from U-Boot shell below.
928
929  => pci header 0.1e.1
930    vendor ID =			0x8086
931    device ID =			0x0f08
932    ...
933    interrupt line =		0x09
934    interrupt pin =		0x04
935    ...
936
937It shows this PCI device is using INTD pin as it reports 4 in the interrupt pin
938register. Repeat this until you get interrupt pins for all the devices. The last
939cell is the PIRQ line which a particular interrupt pin is mapped to. On Intel
940chipset, the power-up default mapping is INTA/B/C/D maps to PIRQA/B/C/D. This
941can be changed by registers in LPC bridge. So far Intel FSP does not touch those
942registers so we can write down the PIRQ according to the default mapping rule.
943
944Once we get the PIRQ routing information in the device tree, the interrupt
945allocation and assignment will be done by U-Boot automatically. Now you can
946enable CONFIG_GENERATE_PIRQ_TABLE for testing Linux kernel using i8259 PIC and
947CONFIG_GENERATE_MP_TABLE for testing Linux kernel using local APIC and I/O APIC.
948
949This script might be useful. If you feed it the output of 'pci long' from
950U-Boot then it will generate a device tree fragment with the interrupt
951configuration for each device (note it needs gawk 4.0.0):
952
953   $ cat console_output |awk '/PCI/ {device=$4} /interrupt line/ {line=$4} \
954	/interrupt pin/ {pin = $4; if (pin != "0x00" && pin != "0xff") \
955	{patsplit(device, bdf, "[0-9a-f]+"); \
956	printf "PCI_BDF(%d, %d, %d) INT%c PIRQ%c\n", strtonum("0x" bdf[1]), \
957	strtonum("0x" bdf[2]), bdf[3], strtonum(pin) + 64, 64 + strtonum(pin)}}'
958
959Example output:
960   PCI_BDF(0, 2, 0) INTA PIRQA
961   PCI_BDF(0, 3, 0) INTA PIRQA
962...
963
964Porting Hints
965-------------
966
967Quark-specific considerations:
968
969To port U-Boot to other boards based on the Intel Quark SoC, a few things need
970to be taken care of. The first important part is the Memory Reference Code (MRC)
971parameters. Quark MRC supports memory-down configuration only. All these MRC
972parameters are supplied via the board device tree. To get started, first copy
973the MRC section of arch/x86/dts/galileo.dts to your board's device tree, then
974change these values by consulting board manuals or your hardware vendor.
975Available MRC parameter values are listed in include/dt-bindings/mrc/quark.h.
976The other tricky part is with PCIe. Quark SoC integrates two PCIe root ports,
977but by default they are held in reset after power on. In U-Boot, PCIe
978initialization is properly handled as per Quark's firmware writer guide.
979In your board support codes, you need provide two routines to aid PCIe
980initialization, which are board_assert_perst() and board_deassert_perst().
981The two routines need implement a board-specific mechanism to assert/deassert
982PCIe PERST# pin. Care must be taken that in those routines that any APIs that
983may trigger PCI enumeration process are strictly forbidden, as any access to
984PCIe root port's configuration registers will cause system hang while it is
985held in reset. For more details, check how they are implemented by the Intel
986Galileo board support codes in board/intel/galileo/galileo.c.
987
988coreboot:
989
990See scripts/coreboot.sed which can assist with porting coreboot code into
991U-Boot drivers. It will not resolve all build errors, but will perform common
992transformations. Remember to add attribution to coreboot for new files added
993to U-Boot. This should go at the top of each file and list the coreboot
994filename where the code originated.
995
996Debugging ACPI issues with Windows:
997
998Windows might cache system information and only detect ACPI changes if you
999modify the ACPI table versions. So tweak them liberally when debugging ACPI
1000issues with Windows.
1001
1002ACPI Support Status
1003-------------------
1004Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) [16] aims to establish
1005industry-standard interfaces enabling OS-directed configuration, power
1006management, and thermal management of mobile, desktop, and server platforms.
1007
1008Linux can boot without ACPI with "acpi=off" command line parameter, but
1009with ACPI the kernel gains the capabilities to handle power management.
1010For Windows, ACPI is a must-have firmware feature since Windows Vista.
1011CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLE is the config option to turn on ACPI support in
1012U-Boot. This requires Intel ACPI compiler to be installed on your host to
1013compile ACPI DSDT table written in ASL format to AML format. You can get
1014the compiler via "apt-get install iasl" if you are on Ubuntu or download
1015the source from [17] to compile one by yourself.
1016
1017Current ACPI support in U-Boot is not complete. More features will be added
1018in the future. The status as of today is:
1019
1020 * Support generating RSDT, XSDT, FACS, FADT, MADT, MCFG tables.
1021 * Support one static DSDT table only, compiled by Intel ACPI compiler.
1022 * Support S0/S5, reboot and shutdown from OS.
1023 * Support booting a pre-installed Ubuntu distribution via 'zboot' command.
1024 * Support installing and booting Ubuntu 14.04 (or above) from U-Boot with
1025   the help of SeaBIOS using legacy interface (non-UEFI mode).
1026 * Support installing and booting Windows 8.1/10 from U-Boot with the help
1027   of SeaBIOS using legacy interface (non-UEFI mode).
1028 * Support ACPI interrupts with SCI only.
1029
1030Features not supported so far (to make it a complete ACPI solution):
1031 * S3 (Suspend to RAM), S4 (Suspend to Disk).
1032
1033Features that are optional:
1034 * Dynamic AML bytecodes insertion at run-time. We may need this to support
1035   SSDT table generation and DSDT fix up.
1036 * SMI support. Since U-Boot is a modern bootloader, we don't want to bring
1037   those legacy stuff into U-Boot. ACPI spec allows a system that does not
1038   support SMI (a legacy-free system).
1039
1040ACPI was initially enabled on BayTrail based boards. Testing was done by booting
1041a pre-installed Ubuntu 14.04 from a SATA drive. Installing Ubuntu 14.04 and
1042Windows 8.1/10 to a SATA drive and booting from there is also tested. Most
1043devices seem to work correctly and the board can respond a reboot/shutdown
1044command from the OS.
1045
1046For other platform boards, ACPI support status can be checked by examining their
1047board defconfig files to see if CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLE is set to y.
1048
1049EFI Support
1050-----------
1051U-Boot supports booting as a 32-bit or 64-bit EFI payload, e.g. with UEFI.
1052This is enabled with CONFIG_EFI_STUB. U-Boot can also run as an EFI
1053application, with CONFIG_EFI_APP. The CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, where U-Booot
1054provides an EFI environment to the kernel (i.e. replaces UEFI completely but
1055provides the same EFI run-time services) is not currently supported on x86.
1056
1057See README.efi for details of EFI support in U-Boot.
1058
105964-bit Support
1060--------------
1061U-Boot supports booting a 64-bit kernel directly and is able to change to
106264-bit mode to do so. It also supports (with CONFIG_EFI_STUB) booting from
1063both 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI. However, U-Boot itself is currently always built
1064in 32-bit mode. Some access to the full memory range is provided with
1065arch_phys_memset().
1066
1067The development work to make U-Boot itself run in 64-bit mode has not yet
1068been attempted. The best approach would likely be to build a 32-bit SPL
1069image for U-Boot, with CONFIG_SPL_BUILD. This could then handle the early CPU
1070init in 16-bit and 32-bit mode, running the FSP and any other binaries that
1071are needed. Then it could change to 64-bit model and jump to U-Boot proper.
1072
1073Given U-Boot's extensive 64-bit support this has not been a high priority,
1074but it would be a nice addition.
1075
1076TODO List
1077---------
1078- Audio
1079- Chrome OS verified boot
1080- Building U-Boot to run in 64-bit mode
1081
1082References
1083----------
1084[1] http://www.coreboot.org
1085[2] http://www.qemu.org
1086[3] http://www.coreboot.org/~stepan/pci8086,0166.rom
1087[4] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/design-tools/evaluation-platforms/atom-e660-eg20t-development-kit.html
1088[5] http://www.intel.com/fsp
1089[6] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/intelligent-systems/privileged/e6xx-35-b1-cmc22211.html
1090[7] http://www.ami.com/products/bios-uefi-tools-and-utilities/bios-uefi-utilities/
1091[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
1092[9] http://simplefirmware.org
1093[10] http://www.intel.com/design/archives/processors/pro/docs/242016.htm
1094[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
1095[12] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/chromeos_and_diy_vboot_0.pdf
1096[13] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elce-2014.pdf
1097[14] http://www.seabios.org/SeaBIOS
1098[15] doc/device-tree-bindings/misc/intel,irq-router.txt
1099[16] http://www.acpi.info
1100[17] https://www.acpica.org/downloads
1101