2 # Copyright (C) 2014, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
3 # Copyright (C) 2014, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This document describes the information about U-Boot running on x86 targets,
12 including supported boards, build instructions, todo list, etc.
16 U-Boot supports running as a coreboot [1] payload on x86. So far only Link
17 (Chromebook Pixel) has been tested, but it should work with minimal adjustments
18 on other x86 boards since coreboot deals with most of the low-level details.
20 U-Boot also supports booting directly from x86 reset vector without coreboot,
21 aka raw support or bare support. Currently Link and Intel Crown Bay board
22 support running U-Boot 'bare metal'.
24 As for loading OS, U-Boot supports directly booting a 32-bit or 64-bit Linux
25 kernel as part of a FIT image. It also supports a compressed zImage.
29 Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets
30 on other architectures, like below:
32 $ make coreboot-x86_defconfig
35 Note this default configuration will build a U-Boot payload for the Link board.
36 To build a coreboot payload against another board, you can change the build
37 configuration during the 'make menuconfig' process.
41 (chromebook_link) Board configuration file
42 (chromebook_link) Board Device Tree Source (dts) file
43 (0x19200000) Board specific Cache-As-RAM (CAR) address
44 (0x4000) Board specific Cache-As-RAM (CAR) size
46 Change the 'Board configuration file' and 'Board Device Tree Source (dts) file'
47 to point to a new board. You can also change the Cache-As-RAM (CAR) related
48 settings here if the default values do not fit your new board.
50 Building ROM version of U-Boot (hereafter referred to as u-boot.rom) is a
51 little bit tricky, as generally it requires several binary blobs which are not
52 shipped in the U-Boot source tree. Due to this reason, the u-boot.rom build is
53 not turned on by default in the U-Boot source tree. Firstly, you need turn it
54 on by uncommenting the following line in the main U-Boot Makefile:
56 # ALL-$(CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR) += u-boot.rom
58 Link-specific instructions:
60 First, you need the following binary blobs:
62 * descriptor.bin - Intel flash descriptor
63 * me.bin - Intel Management Engine
64 * mrc.bin - Memory Reference Code, which sets up SDRAM
65 * video ROM - sets up the display
67 You can get these binary blobs by:
69 $ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/blobs.git
72 Find the following files:
74 * ./mainboard/google/link/descriptor.bin
75 * ./mainboard/google/link/me.bin
76 * ./northbridge/intel/sandybridge/systemagent-ivybridge.bin
78 The 3rd one should be renamed to mrc.bin.
79 As for the video ROM, you can get it here [2].
80 Make sure all these binary blobs are put in the board directory.
82 Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom:
84 $ make chromebook_link_defconfig
87 Intel Crown Bay specific instructions:
89 U-Boot support of Intel Crown Bay board [3] relies on a binary blob called
90 Firmware Support Package [4] to perform all the necessary initialization steps
91 as documented in the BIOS Writer Guide, including initialization of the CPU,
92 memory controller, chipset and certain bus interfaces.
94 Download the Intel FSP for Atom E6xx series and Platform Controller Hub EG20T,
95 install it on your host and locate the FSP binary blob. Note this platform
96 also requires a Chipset Micro Code (CMC) state machine binary to be present in
97 the SPI flash where u-boot.rom resides, and this CMC binary blob can be found
98 in this FSP package too.
100 * ./FSP/QUEENSBAY_FSP_GOLD_001_20-DECEMBER-2013.fd
101 * ./Microcode/C0_22211.BIN
103 Rename the first one to fsp.bin and second one to cmc.bin and put them in the
106 Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
108 $ make crownbay_defconfig
113 For testing U-Boot as the coreboot payload, there are things that need be paid
114 attention to. coreboot supports loading an ELF executable and a 32-bit plain
115 binary, as well as other supported payloads. With the default configuration,
116 U-Boot is set up to use a separate Device Tree Blob (dtb). As of today, the
117 generated u-boot-dtb.bin needs to be packaged by the cbfstool utility (a tool
118 provided by coreboot) manually as coreboot's 'make menuconfig' does not provide
119 this capability yet. The command is as follows:
121 # in the coreboot root directory
122 $ ./build/util/cbfstool/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-flat-binary \
123 -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n fallback/payload -c lzma -l 0x1110000 -e 0x1110015
125 Make sure 0x1110000 matches CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and 0x1110015 matches the
126 symbol address of _start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S).
128 If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to
133 Modern CPU usually requires a special bit stream called microcode [5] to be
134 loaded on the processor after power up in order to function properly. U-Boot
135 has already integrated these as hex dumps in the source tree.
139 x86 has been converted to use driver model for serial and GPIO.
143 x86 uses device tree to configure the board thus requires CONFIG_OF_CONTROL to
144 be turned on. Not every device on the board is configured via device tree, but
145 more and more devices will be added as time goes by. Check out the directory
146 arch/x86/dts/ for these device tree source files.
151 In keeping with the U-Boot philosophy of providing functions to check and
152 adjust internal settings, there are several x86-specific commands that may be
155 hob - Display information about Firmware Support Package (FSP) Hand-off
156 Block. This is only available on platforms which use FSP, mostly
158 iod - Display I/O memory
159 iow - Write I/O memory
160 mtrr - List and set the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR). These are used to
161 tell the CPU whether memory is cacheable and if so the cache write
162 mode to use. U-Boot sets up some reasonable values but you can
163 adjust then with this command.
168 - Chrome OS verified boot
169 - SMI and ACPI support, to provide platform info and facilities to Linux
173 [1] http://www.coreboot.org
174 [2] http://www.coreboot.org/~stepan/pci8086,0166.rom
175 [3] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/design-tools/evaluation-platforms/atom-e660-eg20t-development-kit.html
176 [4] http://www.intel.com/fsp
177 [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode