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2024-06-02make GRUB multi-tree and re-add xhci patchesLeah Rowe
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 <leah@libreboot.org>
2024-01-18GRUB: insert only 1 keymap per board, in cbfsLeah Rowe
There is no need to add multiple keymap files, because GRUB can load keymaps from CBFS. The current build logic is designed to avoid building multiple GRUB binaries, which are expensive computationally because each one would then have to be compressed for each board. This patch provides the best of both worlds: less space used in flash like in the old lbmk design (1 keymap per board), but retaining the current build speeds and therefore not re-introducing the slowness of lbmk's previous GRUB build logic. The grub.cfg file has been modified, accordingly. It now only loads a keymap.gkb file from CBFS, by default. It does this, only if that file exists; if not, GRUB already defaults to US Qwerty layout anyway. ALSO: compress all keymap gkb files with xz -6 GRUB automatically decompresses files when accessed. This results in about 2KB of flash space saved in CBFS. Here is real-world data, showing the increased flash space: < fallback/payload 0x3eb80 simple elf 548821 none < keymap.cfg 0xc4bc0 raw 16 none < (empty) 0xc4c00 null 11633316 none --- > fallback/payload 0x3eb80 simple elf 546787 none > keymap.gkb 0xc43c0 raw 344 none > (empty) 0xc4540 null 11635044 none This was taken by diffing the cbfstool "print" output, both before and after. The *after* result is with this change. 11633316. In this example, 1728 bytes have been saved. Therefore, with compression taken into account, this patch saves about 1.7KB of space in CBFS. This change means that lbmk can now scale to support hundreds of keymaps, without increasing the amount of flash space used, in each given image. Since the keymap files are compressed in lbmk.git, in advance, we spend no additional time on compression at build time. The resulting change in build speed in negligible. Adding your own keymap.gkb file was already possible, for changing the keymap in libreboot images, if you didn't want to change the memdisk (and thus re-compile grub.elf). Now, this is the default behaviour, and the only way to do it. It's much more efficient. The original keymap files can be restored, by running unxz. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
2023-09-04merge config/ and resources/Leah Rowe
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>