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authorLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2024-12-26 17:11:10 +0000
committerLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2024-12-26 22:05:16 +0000
commit12c6259cb2f8a3a580d30e52ee2a6c9e8ece2cc3 (patch)
tree150d241eae5e376cb772476a5393dadd90263fc7 /config/coreboot/dell780usff_8mb
parent781320514623653077cda2d910b9baf150949bd1 (diff)
vendor.sh: Handle FSP insertion post-release
The Libreboot 20241206 release provided FSP pre-assembled and inserted into the ROM images; the only file inserted by vendor.sh was the Intel ME. Direct distribution of an unmodified FSP image is permitted by Intel, provided that the license notice is given among other requirements. Due to how coreboot works, it must split up the FSP into subcomponents, and adjust certain pointers within the -M component (for raminit). Such build-time modifications are perfectly fine in a coreboot context, where it is expected that you are building from source. The end result is simply what you use. In a distribution such as Libreboot, where we provide pre-built images, this becomes problematic. It's a technicality of the license, and it seems that Intel themselves probably intended for Libreboot to use the FSP this way anyway, since it is they who seem to be the author of SplitFspBin.py, which is the utility that coreboot uses for splitting up the FSP image. Due to the technicality of the licensing, the FSP shall now be scrubbed from releases, and re-inserted. Coreboot was inserting the -S component with LZ4 compression, which is bad news for ./mk inject beacuse the act of compression is currently not reproducible. Therefore, coreboot has been modified not to compress this section, and the inject command doesn't compress it either. This means that the S file is using about 180KB in flash, instead of about 140KB. This is totally OK. The _fsp targets are retained, but set to release=n, because these targets *still* don't scrub fsp.bin; if released, they would include fsp files, so they've been set to release=n. These can be used on older Libreboot release archives, for compatibility. The new ROM images released for the affected machines are: t480_vfsp_16mb t480s_vfsp_16mb dell3050micro_vfsp_16mb Note the use of _vfsp instead of _fsp. These images are released, unlike _fsp, and they lack fspm/fsps in the image. FSP S/M must be inserted using ./mk inject. This has been tested and confirmed to boot just fine. The 20241206 images will be re-compiled and re-uploaded with this and other recent changes, to make Libreboot 20241206 rev8. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
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