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<title>minor code cleanup in the build system</title>
<updated>2024-06-09T17:48:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-09T17:48:58+00:00</published>
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<title>put coreboot utils in elf/, not cbutils/</title>
<updated>2024-06-06T20:51:37+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-06T20:45:53+00:00</published>
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one directory per util, under elf/

e.g. elf/cbfstool/

further split by tree name, e.g.:

elf/cbfstool/default/
elf/cbfstool/foo/

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one directory per util, under elf/

e.g. elf/cbfstool/

further split by tree name, e.g.:

elf/cbfstool/default/
elf/cbfstool/foo/

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>use correct memtest86plus path in script/roms</title>
<updated>2024-06-06T08:11:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-06T08:11:39+00:00</published>
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the previous change makes memtest.bin get cached in elf/
but the path was being prefixed with src/ by script/roms

do away with the prefix

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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the previous change makes memtest.bin get cached in elf/
but the path was being prefixed with src/ by script/roms

do away with the prefix

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>put memtest86plus builds in elf/memtest86plus/</title>
<updated>2024-06-06T08:05:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-06T08:05:16+00:00</published>
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<title>better help text on invalid commands</title>
<updated>2024-06-02T23:17:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-02T23:17:36+00:00</published>
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adding help again is a bad idea. code should never
document itself; that's what documentation is for.

so, make the code do a better job telling the user
where to find documentation.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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adding help again is a bad idea. code should never
document itself; that's what documentation is for.

so, make the code do a better job telling the user
where to find documentation.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>make GRUB multi-tree and re-add xhci patches</title>
<updated>2024-06-02T18:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<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>roms: allow user override of grub_scan_disk</title>
<updated>2024-05-28T22:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-28T22:47:13+00:00</published>
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this effectively lets you change the boot order. example:

./build roms -s "nvme ata" t1650_12mb

the above example would set:
grub_scan_disk="nvme ata"

another example:

./build roms -s nvme t1650_12mb

this would set:
grub_scan_disk="nvme"

this overrides what's set in target.cfg for the given
target. useful for quick reconfiguration if building
from source

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this effectively lets you change the boot order. example:

./build roms -s "nvme ata" t1650_12mb

the above example would set:
grub_scan_disk="nvme ata"

another example:

./build roms -s nvme t1650_12mb

this would set:
grub_scan_disk="nvme"

this overrides what's set in target.cfg for the given
target. useful for quick reconfiguration if building
from source

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>roms: fix bad eval when comparing options</title>
<updated>2024-05-28T00:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-28T00:23:43+00:00</published>
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<title>grub.cfg: use grub_scan_disk to set boot order</title>
<updated>2024-05-27T19:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-27T19:16:49+00:00</published>
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Previously, grub_scan_disk could set ata, ahci or "both",
which would make both be tried (ahci first). This worked
when we only dealt with ata and ahci devices, but now we
support nvme devices so the logic is inherently flawed.

Instead, use grub_scan_disk to store the boot order, e.g.:

grub_scan_disk="ahci nvme ata"

grub_scan_disk="nvme ata"

In the first example, it would make GRUB scan ahci first,
then nvme and then ata.

In the secontd example, it would make GRUB scan nvme first,
and then ata.

If "both" is set, or anything other than ahci/ata/nvme,
grub_scan_disk is now changed to "nvme ahci ata".

Actual grub_scan_disk entries in target.cfg files will now
be modified, to match each machine.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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Previously, grub_scan_disk could set ata, ahci or "both",
which would make both be tried (ahci first). This worked
when we only dealt with ata and ahci devices, but now we
support nvme devices so the logic is inherently flawed.

Instead, use grub_scan_disk to store the boot order, e.g.:

grub_scan_disk="ahci nvme ata"

grub_scan_disk="nvme ata"

In the first example, it would make GRUB scan ahci first,
then nvme and then ata.

In the secontd example, it would make GRUB scan nvme first,
and then ata.

If "both" is set, or anything other than ahci/ata/nvme,
grub_scan_disk is now changed to "nvme ahci ata".

Actual grub_scan_disk entries in target.cfg files will now
be modified, to match each machine.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe &lt;leah@libreboot.org&gt;
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<title>minor correction</title>
<updated>2024-05-27T14:05:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leah Rowe</name>
<email>leah@libreboot.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-27T14:05:33+00:00</published>
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