From 9a321884379a71b5f0986fdfb97a2b6c5bdccd8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:13:00 -0400 Subject: Libreboot release 6 beta 6. - Added modified builddeb* scripts for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre: buildpac, buildpac-flashrom, buildpac-bucts (courtesy of Noah Vesely) - Documentation: updated all relevant areas to mention use of buildpac* scripts for Parabola users. - Documentation: added information showing how to enable or disable bluetooth on the X60 - MacBook1,1 tested! See ../docs/index.html#macbook11" - Documentation: fixed typo in ../docs/index.html#get_edid_panelname (get-edit changed to get-edid) - Documentation: added ../docs/howtos/x60_lcd_change/ (pics only for now) - Added gcry_serpent and gcry_whirlpool to the GRUB module list in the 'build' script (for luks users) - Libreboot is now based on a new coreboot version from August 23rd, 2014: Merged commits (relates to boards that were already supported in libreboot): - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6697/ - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6698/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6699/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6696/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6695/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5927/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6717/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6718/ (merged already) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6723/ (merged already) (text-mode patch, might enable memtest. macbook21) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6732/ (MERGED) (remove useless ps/2 keyboard delay from macbook21. already merged) - These were also merged in coreboot (relates to boards that libreboot already supported): - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5320/ (merged) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5321/ (merged) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5323/ (merged) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6693/ (merged) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6694/ (merged) - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5324/ (merged) - Documentation: removed the section about tft_brightness on X60 (new code makes it obsolete) - Removed all patches from resources/libreboot/patch/ and added new patch: 0000_t60_textmode.git.diff - Updated getcb script and DEBLOB script. - Updated configuration files under resources/libreboot/config/ to accomodate new coreboot version. - Removed grub_serial*.cfg and libreboot_serial*.rom, all configs/rom's are now unified (containing same configuration as serial rom's from before). - Documentation: updated ../docs/index.html#rom to reflect the above. - Updated GRUB to new version from August 14th, 2014. - Unified all grub configurations for all machines to a single grub.cfg under resources/grub/config/ - Updated flashrom to new version from August 20th, 2014 - Added getseabios and builddeps-seabios (builddeps and getall were also updated) - Added instructions to 'buildrom-withgrub' to include bios.bin.elf and vgaroms/vgabios.bin from SeaBIOS inside the ROM. - Added seabios (and sgavgabios) to grub as payload option in menu - Disabled serial output in Memtest86+ (no longer needed) to speed up tests. - MemTest86+ now works properly, it can output on the laptop screen (no serial port needed anymore). - Added getgrubinvaders, builddeps-grubinvaders scripts. Added these to getall and builddeps. - Added GRUB Invaders menu entry in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg - Added rules to builddeps-coreboot to build libpayload with TinyCurses. (added appropriate instructions to cleandeps script). - Commented out lines in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg for loading font/background (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in text-mode). - Commented out lines in buildrom-withgrub that included backgrounds/fonts (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in text-mode). - Added resources/utilities/i945-pwm/ (from git://git.mtjm.eu/i945-pwm), for debugging acpi brightness on i945 machines. - Added instructions for it in builddeps, builddeps-i945pwm, builddeb and cleandeps - 'build' script: removed the parts that generated sha512sum manifests (not needed, since release tarballs are GPG-signed) - 'build' script: removed the parts that generated libreboot_meta directory (not needed anymore, since _meta will be hosted in git) - Updated ../docs/index.html#build_meta (and other parts of documentation) to accomodate this change. - Documentation: simplified (refactored) the notes in ../docs/index.html#rom - 'build' script: removed the parts that generated libreboot_bin and added them to a new script: 'build-release' - Documentation: ../docs/index.html#build updated to reflect the above. - Removed 'sudo' from builddeb, builddeb-flashrom, powertop.trisquel6 and builddeb-bucts scripts (assuming that the user has it is a really bad idea). - Added all gcry_* modules to grub (luks/cryptomount): gcry_arcfour gcry_camellia gcry_crc gcry_dsa gcry_md4 gcry_rfc2268 gcry_rmd160 gcry_seed gcry_sha1 gcry_sha512 gcry_twofish gcry_blowfish gcry_cast5 gcry_des gcry_idea gcry_md5 gcry_rijndael gcry_rsa gcry_serpent gcry_sha256 gcry_tiger gcry_whirlpool - Added GNUtoo's list of GRUB modules (includes all of the gcry_* modules above), cryptomount should be working now. - Removed builddeb-bucts and builddeb-flashrom, merged them with builddeb (../docs/index.html updated accordingly) - Removed buildpac-bucts and buildpac-flashrom, merged them with buildpac (../docs/index.html updated accordingly) - Renamed builddeb to deps-trisquel (../docs/index.html updated accordingly) - Renamed buildpac to deps-parabola (../docs/index.html updated accordingly) - Documentation: removed all parts talking about build dependencies, replaced them with links to ../docs/index.html#build_dependencies - Documentation: emphasized more strongly on the documentation, the need to re-build bucts and/or flashrom before flashing a ROM image. - build-release: flashrom, nvramtool, cbfstool and bucts are no longer provided pre-compiled in binary archives, and are now in source form only. (to maximize distro compatibility). - Documentation: added ../docs/howtos/encrypted_trisquel.html showing how to setup a fully encrypted Trisquel installation (including /boot) and boot it from the GRUB payload. - 'build' script: replaced grub.elf assembly instructons, it's now handled by a utility added under resources/utilities/grub-assemble - Moved resources/grub/keymap to resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap, and updated that utility to use it - Documentation: removed useless links to pictures of keyboard layouts and unmodified layouts. - Removed all unused fonts from dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34/ directory - 'buildrom-withgrub' script: updated it to create 2 sets of ROM's for each machine: one with text-mode, one with coreboot framebuffer. - Documentation: updated ../docs/index.html#rom to reflect the above - Deleted unused README and COPYING file from main directory - Removed some rm -rf .git* instructions from the get* scripts and moved them to build-release script - Split up default grub.cfg into 6 parts: extra/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg} and menuentries/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg} - buildrom-withgrub script uses these to generate the correct grub.cfg for each type of configuration. - grub_memdisk.cfg (used inside grub.elf) now only loads grub.cfg from cbfs. It no longer enables serial output or sets prefix. (menuentries/common.cfg does instead) - resources/grub/config/extra/common.cfg, added: - insmod instructions to load those modules: nativedisk, ehci, ohci, uhci, usb, usbserial_pl2303, usbserial_ftdi, usbserial_usbdebug - set prefix=(memdisk)/boot/grub - For native graphics (recommended by coreboot wiki): - gfxpayload=keep - terminal_output --append gfxterm - Play a beep on startup: - play 480 440 1 - Documentation: added note about 'fb=false' workaround for text-mode debian-installer (Trisquel net install) to ../docs/howtos/grub_boot_installer.html - Documentation: updated ../docs/howtos/grub_cbfs.html to make it safer (and easier) to follow. --- (limited to 'docs/index.html') diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index b428972..666569f 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@

Working with source code

-

Hardware maintenance

+

Supported hardware

- -

Macbook2,1

- @@ -98,38 +92,37 @@
  • ThinkPad X60 Tablet: How to unbrick
  • ThinkPad T60: How to unbrick
    • + +

    Security topics

    + + +

    Hardware maintenance

    +

    GRUB2 payload

    Miscallaneous

    The resulting .config file was saved as resources/libreboot/config/macbook21/config and is used by the build - scripts for this machine. + scripts for this machine. This config is also used for the MacBook1,1.

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    @@ -528,18 +563,11 @@

    How to build the ROM's!

    -

    If you have anything special in a directory called libreboot_bin, just outside of libreboot_src, - then back it up first.

    -

    You don't need to do much: there are scripts already written for you that can build everything automatically.

    -

    Install all dependencies (works on apt-get distros, tested in Trisquel 6)
    - $ sudo ./builddeb

    - -

    If your distro uses a different package manager or package names, then you'll need to adapt what you see in - 'builddeb' and install it yourself - maybe you could share the script for your distro!

    - -

    Also, make sure that you have the sha512sum utility installed.

    +

    + First, install the build dependencies. +

    If running for the first time, run this:
    $ ./buildall (also performs the "./build" step below)
    @@ -551,17 +579,23 @@ $ ./build

    To un-build (clean) the build dependencies that you built before, do that:
    + This also deletes the ROM images under ./bin/:
    $ ./cleandeps

    Note: after running 'cleandeps', you will need to run 'builddeps' or 'buildall' again before you can use 'build'.

    -

    After 'build' or 'buildall' has finished, an ../libreboot_bin directory will exist outside of libreboot_src containing the ROM's and other files. In libreboot_src will also be - a directory called 'bin' which contains all of the ROM's that you compiled.

    +

    After 'build' or 'buildall' has finished, you'll find the ROM images for each machine under ./bin/

    -

    The script also generates a 'libreboot_meta' directory outside of libreboot_src, which contains everything in src except for grub, coreboot, memtest, - flashrom and bucts. There is a script called 'getall' from src included in meta, which downloads and patches everything needed to create src.

    +

    Preparing release archives (optional)

    + +

    + Run that script:
    + $ ./build-release +

    -

    Reading all of those scripts will teach you how everything is built. It should also be simple to modify it to your needs.

    +

    + You'll find that the files libreboot_bin.tar.xz and libreboot_src.tar.xz have been created. +

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    @@ -575,7 +609,8 @@ @@ -593,6 +628,20 @@
    +

    Recommended wifi chipsets

    +

    + The following are known to work well: +

    + + +

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    + +
    +

    List of supported ThinkPad X60's

    @@ -617,6 +666,12 @@ and the motherboards are the same shape/size.

    +

    + The X60 typically comes with an Intel wifi chipset which does not work at all without proprietary firmware, and while Lenovo BIOS is running + the machine will refuse to boot if you replace the card. Fortunately it is very easily replaced; + just remove the card and install another one after libreboot is installed. See #recommended_wifi for replacements. +

    +

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    @@ -661,6 +716,12 @@ and the motherboards are the same shape/size. It is unknown if the same applies between the X60 Tablet and the X61 Tablet.

    +

    + The X60 Tablet typically comes with an Intel wifi chipset which does not work at all without proprietary firmware, and while Lenovo BIOS is running + the machine will refuse to boot if you replace the card. Fortunately it is very easily replaced; + just remove the card and install another one after libreboot is installed. See #recommended_wifi for replacements. +

    +

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    @@ -732,6 +793,12 @@ It is unknown whether the 1680x1050 (15.4") and 1920x1200 (15.4") panels use a different inverter board than the 1280x800 panels.

    +

    + The T60 typically comes with an Intel wifi chipset which does not work at all without proprietary firmware, and while Lenovo BIOS is running + the machine will refuse to boot if you replace the card. Fortunately it is very easily replaced; + just remove the card and install another one after libreboot is installed. See #recommended_wifi for replacements. +

    +

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    @@ -760,13 +827,8 @@

    - The following T60 motherboard shows an ATI GPU (do not buy this) (highlighted in red, or on the right next to the white CPU socket), which is unsupported by libreboot:
    - -

    - -

    - The following T60 motherboard shows an Intel GPU (buy this!) (highlighted in red or on the right next to the white CPU socket, you can see that the space for ATI GPU is empty):
    - + The following T60 motherboard (see area highlighted in white) shows an empty space where the ATI GPU would be (this particular motherboard has an Intel GPU): +

    @@ -795,6 +857,57 @@

    +

    Information about the macbook1,1

    + +

    + There is an Apple laptop called the macbook1,1 from 2006 which uses the same i945 chipset as the ThinkPad X60/T60. + A developer ported the MacBook2,1 to coreboot, the ROM images also work on the macbook1,1. +

    + +

    + You can refer to #macbook21 for most of this. Macbook2,1 laptops come with Core 2 Duo processors + which support 64-bit operating systems (and 32-bit). The MacBook1,1 uses Core Duo processors (supports 32-bit OS but not 64-bit), + and it is believed that this is the only difference. +

    + +

    + It is believed that all models are compatible, listed here: +

    + + +

    + Compatible models +

    +

    + Specifically (Order No. / Model No. / CPU): +

    + + +

    + Also of interest: #config_macbook21. +

    + +

    + Unbricking: this page shows disassembly guides and mono's page (see #macbook21) + shows the location of the SPI flash chip on the motherboard. How to remove the motherboard. +

    + +

    + No method is yet known for flashing in GNU/Linux while the Apple firmware is running. You will need to disassemble the machine and flash externally. + Reading from flash seems to work. Bus Pirate recommended for external flashing (there are others) and needed tools: clip (eg Pomona 5250), mini usb cable, + bus pirate cable (for connecting Pomona to the bus pirate). +

    + +

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    + +
    +

    Information about the macbook2,1

    @@ -859,8 +972,8 @@ Specifically (Order No. / Model No. / CPU):