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<title>make GRUB multi-tree and re-add xhci patches</title>
<updated>2024-06-02T18:58:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-01T22:01:30+00:00</published>
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Re-add xHCI only on haswell and broadwell machines, where
they are needed. Otherwise, keep the same GRUB code.

The xHCI patches were removed because they caused issues
on Sandybridge-based Dell Latitude laptops. See:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216

The issue was not reported elsewhere, including on the
Haswell/Broadwell hardware where they are needed, but the
build system could only build one version of GRUB.

The older machines do not need xHCI patches, because they
either do not have xHCI patches, or work (in GRUB) because
they're in EHCI mode when running the payload.

So, the problem is that we need the xHCI patches for GRUB
on Haswell/Broadwell hardware, but the patches break
Sandybridge hardware, and we only had the one build of GRUB.
To mitigate this problem, the build system now supports
building multiple revisions of GRUB, with different patches,
and each given coreboot target can say which GRUB tree to use
by setting this in target.cfg:

grubtree="xhci"

In the above example, the "xhci" tree would be used. Some
generic GRUB config has been moved to config/data/grub/
and config/grub/ now looks like config/coreboot/ - also,
the grub.cfg file (named "payload" in each tree) is copied
to the GRUB source tree as ".config", then added to GRUB's
memdisk in the same way, as grub.cfg.

Several other design changes had to be made because of this:

* grub.cfg in memdisk no longer automatically jumps to one
  in CBFS, but now shows a menuentry for it if available

* Certain commands in script/trees are disabled for GRUB,
  such as *config make commands.

* gnulib is now defined in config/submodule/grub/, instead
  of config/git/grub - and this mitigates an existing bug
  where downloading gnulib first would make grub no longer
  possible to download in lbmk.

The coreboot option CONFIG_FINALIZE_USB_ROUTE_XHCI has been
re-enabled on: Dell OptiPlex 9020 MT, Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF,
Lenovo ThinkPad T440p and Lenovo ThinkPad W541 - now USB should
work again in GRUB.

The GRUB payload has been re-enabled on HP EliteBook 820 G2.

This change will enable per-board GRUB optimisation in the
future. For example, we hardcode what partitions and LVMs
GRUB scans because * is slow on ICH7-based machines, due
to GRUB's design. On other machines, * is reasonably fast,
for automatically enumerating the list of devices for boot.

Use of * (and other wildcards) could enable our GRUB payload
to automatically boot more distros, with minimal fuss. This
can be done at a later date, in subsequent revisions.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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Re-add xHCI only on haswell and broadwell machines, where
they are needed. Otherwise, keep the same GRUB code.

The xHCI patches were removed because they caused issues
on Sandybridge-based Dell Latitude laptops. See:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216

The issue was not reported elsewhere, including on the
Haswell/Broadwell hardware where they are needed, but the
build system could only build one version of GRUB.

The older machines do not need xHCI patches, because they
either do not have xHCI patches, or work (in GRUB) because
they're in EHCI mode when running the payload.

So, the problem is that we need the xHCI patches for GRUB
on Haswell/Broadwell hardware, but the patches break
Sandybridge hardware, and we only had the one build of GRUB.
To mitigate this problem, the build system now supports
building multiple revisions of GRUB, with different patches,
and each given coreboot target can say which GRUB tree to use
by setting this in target.cfg:

grubtree="xhci"

In the above example, the "xhci" tree would be used. Some
generic GRUB config has been moved to config/data/grub/
and config/grub/ now looks like config/coreboot/ - also,
the grub.cfg file (named "payload" in each tree) is copied
to the GRUB source tree as ".config", then added to GRUB's
memdisk in the same way, as grub.cfg.

Several other design changes had to be made because of this:

* grub.cfg in memdisk no longer automatically jumps to one
  in CBFS, but now shows a menuentry for it if available

* Certain commands in script/trees are disabled for GRUB,
  such as *config make commands.

* gnulib is now defined in config/submodule/grub/, instead
  of config/git/grub - and this mitigates an existing bug
  where downloading gnulib first would make grub no longer
  possible to download in lbmk.

The coreboot option CONFIG_FINALIZE_USB_ROUTE_XHCI has been
re-enabled on: Dell OptiPlex 9020 MT, Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF,
Lenovo ThinkPad T440p and Lenovo ThinkPad W541 - now USB should
work again in GRUB.

The GRUB payload has been re-enabled on HP EliteBook 820 G2.

This change will enable per-board GRUB optimisation in the
future. For example, we hardcode what partitions and LVMs
GRUB scans because * is slow on ICH7-based machines, due
to GRUB's design. On other machines, * is reasonably fast,
for automatically enumerating the list of devices for boot.

Use of * (and other wildcards) could enable our GRUB payload
to automatically boot more distros, with minimal fuss. This
can be done at a later date, in subsequent revisions.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>GRUB: remove XHCI patches for now (will re-add)</title>
<updated>2024-05-27T16:11:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-05-27T14:36:27+00:00</published>
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Fixes this bug:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216

Well, fix is the wrong word. We want xHCI ideally.

Mate is working on it as I write this. I've also:

* Disabled CONFIG_FINALIZE_USB_ROUTE_XHCI on Haswell
  boards (coreboot)
* Disabled the GRUB payload on HP 820 G2 for now

We will need to re-add the xHCI patches once fixed.
If Mate/we can't fix it, I'll contact Patrick
Rudolph who originally wrote the xHCI patches.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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Fixes this bug:
https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/216

Well, fix is the wrong word. We want xHCI ideally.

Mate is working on it as I write this. I've also:

* Disabled CONFIG_FINALIZE_USB_ROUTE_XHCI on Haswell
  boards (coreboot)
* Disabled the GRUB payload on HP 820 G2 for now

We will need to re-add the xHCI patches once fixed.
If Mate/we can't fix it, I'll contact Patrick
Rudolph who originally wrote the xHCI patches.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add NVMe support to GRUB2 payload</title>
<updated>2024-05-20T19:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mate Kukri</name>
<email>km@mkukri.xyz</email>
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<published>2024-05-20T19:48:44+00:00</published>
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Tested on OptiPlex 3050 (via injecting grub2.elf into WIP coreboot
port).
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Tested on OptiPlex 3050 (via injecting grub2.elf into WIP coreboot
port).
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<title>Libreboot 20240504 release</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T05:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-05-04T05:25:42+00:00</published>
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<title>grub xhci support</title>
<updated>2024-04-05T22:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-05T22:44:06+00:00</published>
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see:

https://github.com/9elements/grub/commits/xhci-module-upstreaming-squash_v4/

grub only supports xhci on bios/uefi targets, but not coreboot.
some newer machines don't have ps/2 controllers, and boot in a
way where ehci isn't available at startup; the controller can't
be used by ehci code, there must be xhci support.

the code is from Patrick Rudolph working on behalf of 9elements.
the code was also sent here for review:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-12/msg00111.html

however, upstream never merged these patches. libreboot will have
to maintain these from now on. the patches have been rebased for
use with grub 2.12.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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see:

https://github.com/9elements/grub/commits/xhci-module-upstreaming-squash_v4/

grub only supports xhci on bios/uefi targets, but not coreboot.
some newer machines don't have ps/2 controllers, and boot in a
way where ehci isn't available at startup; the controller can't
be used by ehci code, there must be xhci support.

the code is from Patrick Rudolph working on behalf of 9elements.
the code was also sent here for review:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-12/msg00111.html

however, upstream never merged these patches. libreboot will have
to maintain these from now on. the patches have been rebased for
use with grub 2.12.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>Libreboot 20240225</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T12:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-02-25T12:53:16+00:00</published>
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<title>Libreboot 20240126</title>
<updated>2024-01-26T11:16:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-01-25T22:05:17+00:00</published>
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<title>Libreboot 20231106</title>
<updated>2023-11-06T00:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-06T00:55:49+00:00</published>
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<title>grub: avoid printing empty error messages</title>
<updated>2023-11-05T21:59:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2023-11-05T21:59:52+00:00</published>
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this replaces the previous behaviour, which erred
on a specific value of grub_errno, which was a
problem if other types of errors used that value.

due to the way i patch out the prefix error messages,
this new patch ensures that only those errors are
silenced. all other messages will be printed.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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this replaces the previous behaviour, which erred
on a specific value of grub_errno, which was a
problem if other types of errors used that value.

due to the way i patch out the prefix error messages,
this new patch ensures that only those errors are
silenced. all other messages will be printed.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>further silence grub prefix errors</title>
<updated>2023-11-05T17:30:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2023-11-05T17:30:33+00:00</published>
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it still printed "error: ." on screen, instead
of the prefix message.

now it's silent. it just says:

Welcome to GRUB!

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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it still printed "error: ." on screen, instead
of the prefix message.

now it's silent. it just says:

Welcome to GRUB!

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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