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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-01-29 23:59:16 (EST)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-01-29 23:59:16 (EST)
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Add QEMU (i440fx/piix4) support to libreboot
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<li><a href="#config_t60">ThinkPad T60</a></li>
<li><a href="#config_x200">ThinkPad X200</a></li>
<li><a href="#config_macbook21">MacBook2,1</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#config_qemu_i440fx_piix4">QEMU (x86 i440fx/piix4)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#build">How to build the ROM images</a></li>
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The resulting .config file was saved as resources/libreboot/config/<b>macbook21/config</b> and is used by the build
scripts for this machine. <b>This config is also used for the MacBook1,1</b>.
</p>
+
+ <h2 id="config_qemu_i440fx_piix4">
+ QEMU (x86 i440fx/piix4) configuration (file: resources/libreboot/config/qemu_i440fx_piix4/config)
+ </h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>General / Expert mode = <i>enable</i></li>
+ <li>Mainboard / Mainboard vendor = <i>Emulation</i></li>
+ <li>Mainboard / Mainboard model = <i>QEMU x86 i440fx/piix4 (aka qemu -M pc)</i></li>
+ <li>Mainboard / ROM chip size = <i>8192 KB (8 MB)</i></li>
+ <li>Devices / Use native graphics initialization = <i>enable</i> (should already be enabled)</li>
+ <li>
+ Display / Keep VESA framebuffer = <i>enable</i> (disable for text-mode graphics, enable for coreboot vesa framebuffer)
+ <ul>
+ <li>Libreboot provides this with framebuffer enabled by default, but it automatically patches a copy of the config at build time
+ to enable coreboot text-mode for a separate set of ROM images, in each machine.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Console / Send console output to a CBMEM buffer = <i>enable</i></li>
+ <li>Payload / Add a payload = <i>An ELF executable payload</i></li>
+ <li>Payload / Payload path and filename = <i>grub.elf</i></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ Go back and disable option ROMs:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Devices / Run VGA Option ROMs = <i>disable</i></li>
+ <li>Devices / Run Option ROMs on PCI devices = <i>disable</i></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ The resulting .config file was saved as resources/libreboot/config/<b>macbook21/config</b> and is used by the build
+ scripts for this machine. <b>This config is also used for the MacBook1,1</b>.
+ </p>
<p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page.</a></p>
@@ -579,7 +612,7 @@
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<p>
- Copyright &copy; 2014 Francis Rowe &lt;info@gluglug.org.uk&gt;<br/>
+ Copyright &copy; 2014, 2015 Francis Rowe &lt;info@gluglug.org.uk&gt;<br/>
This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License and all future versions.
A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../license.txt">../license.txt</a>.
</p>
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</ul>
<h2>Installing libreboot (software)</h2>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="#qemu">QEMU</a></li>
<li><a href="#rom">Recommended ROMs to flash</a></li>
<li><a href="#flashrom_lenovobios">X60/X60S/X60T/T60: How to flash your ROM (if running Lenovo BIOS firmware)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flashrom_macbook21">macbook21: How to flash your ROM (if running Apple EFI firmware)</a></li>
@@ -39,6 +40,15 @@
<li><a href="t60_unbrick.html">ThinkPad T60: How to unbrick</a></li>
<li><a href="x200_external.html">ThinkPad X200: How to unbrick</a> (also the initial installation guide for this machine)</li>
</ul>
+
+<hr/>
+
+ <h1 id="qemu">QEMU</h1>
+
+ <p>
+ You don't really do anything here, just run (example):<br/>
+ $ <b>qemu-system-i386 -m 512 -bios qemu_i440fx_piix4_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom</b>
+ </p>
<hr/>