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Arthur Heymans 7d46e96ed7 mainboard: Add ASRock G41C-GS
Start-point is Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L.

This board features a G41 northbridge and an ICH7 southbridge. This
board has slots for both DDR2 and DDR3 (cannot run concurrently
though) but only DDR2 is implemented in coreboot. The SPI flash
resides in a DIP-8 socket.

Tested and working:
* DDR2 dual channel (PC2 5300 and PC2 6400, though raminit is picky
  with assymetric dimm setups);
* 3,5" IDE;
* SATA;
* PCIe x16 (with some patches up for review);
* Uart, PS2 Keyboard;
* USB, ethernet, audio;
* Native graphic init;
* Fan control;
* Reboot, poweroff, S3 resume;
* Flashrom (vendor and coreboot).

Tested but fails:
* DDR3 (not implemented in coreboot).

Tests were run with SeaBIOS and Debian sid, using Linux 4.9.0.

Change-Id: I992ee07b742dfc59733ce0f3a9be202a530ec6cc
Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/18993
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
2017-05-13 17:37:27 +02:00
3rdparty 3rdparty/libgfxinit: Update submodule pointer 2017-04-08 13:02:44 +02:00
configs configs/builder: Remove pre-defined VGA bios file 2017-01-20 17:37:19 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/Intel: Add vboot documentation 2017-05-03 23:05:59 +02:00
payloads cbgfx: Add portrait screen support 2017-05-01 17:52:12 +02:00
src mainboard: Add ASRock G41C-GS 2017-05-13 17:37:27 +02:00
util util: Add tools for dumping and inserting KBC1126 firmware images. 2017-05-11 16:48:40 +02:00
.checkpatch.conf checkpatch.conf: Update rules 2017-03-09 04:37:28 +01:00
.clang-format Provide coreboot coding style formalisation file for clang-format 2015-11-10 00:49:03 +01:00
.gitignore util: Add tools for dumping and inserting KBC1126 firmware images. 2017-05-11 16:48:40 +02:00
.gitmodules Set up 3rdparty/libgfxinit 2016-10-29 01:35:03 +02:00
.gitreview add .gitreview 2012-11-01 23:13:39 +01:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
gnat.adc gnat.adc: Do not generate assertion code for Refined_Post 2016-10-29 01:33:31 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update list 2017-03-08 04:33:30 +01:00
Makefile build system: when cleaning the tree, remove ..config.tmp* 2017-04-28 00:58:36 +02:00
Makefile.inc device: allow devicetree accesses in postcar stage 2017-04-25 18:15:14 +02:00
README Remove extra newlines from the end of all coreboot files. 2016-07-31 18:19:33 +02:00
toolchain.inc Remove libverstage as separate library and source file class 2017-03-28 22:18:53 +02:00

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coreboot README
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
(firmware) found in most computers.  coreboot performs a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
payload.

With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
required.

coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * make
 * gcc / g++
   Because Linux distribution compilers tend to use lots of patches. coreboot
   does lots of "unusual" things in its build system, some of which break due
   to those patches, sometimes by gcc aborting, sometimes - and that's worse -
   by generating broken object code.
   Two options: use our toolchain (eg. make crosstools-i386) or enable the
   ANY_TOOLCHAIN Kconfig option if you're feeling lucky (no support in this
   case).
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig' and 'make nconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.