[coreboot] Re: Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-09 Thread bernd...@web.de
Hi. I refer to https://doc.coreboot.org/tutorial/part1.html.I'm onStep 6 - build corebootnow and did$ makeAccording to the tutorial (which refers to coreinfo however, I installed SeaBIOS) I should see:Build emulation/qemu-i440fx (QEMU x86 i440fx/piix4)In the last section I see something

[coreboot] Re: 26 October 2021 - coreboot EFI working group meeting minutes

2021-11-09 Thread Peter Stuge
coreboot org wrote: > It looks like the push to require linux to use EFI is coming from the > Universal Scalable Firmware project. > [https://github.com/UniversalScalableFirmware/linuxpayload] Thanks for the link! I didn't know about USF and found a good project overview linked from

[coreboot] Re: Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-09 Thread Peter Stuge
bernd...@web.de wrote: > /bin/sh: 1: python: not found > make[2]: *** [Makefile:168: out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127 It's unfortunate that SeaBIOS requires python to build, but keep it up, you're not far away. Merlin Büge wrote: > If you want to proceed with doing it yourself, be prepared that

[coreboot] Placing coreboot in system memory

2021-11-09 Thread Julian Stecklina
Hi! I have a bit of a newbie question. We're using Coreboot in VMs in our custom virtualization stack for x86. We are mapping the whole Coreboot image into guest physical memory so its end coincides with 4G. This makes Coreboot's reset vector entry point line up with where the hardware wants to

[coreboot] Re: Placing coreboot in system memory

2021-11-09 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Hi Julian, November 9, 2021 6:27 PM, "Julian Stecklina" wrote: > This works, but I wonder whether this is the intended way to use Coreboot or > whether there is some more elaborate way to do it. Does all of Coreboot have > to > be mapped at the end of 4G? Or is there any documentation on

[coreboot] Re: Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-09 Thread Merlin Büge
Hi, > Are the errors a problem and do I need to do something? Can I proceed? Yes of course, they're *errors* after all. Look here: > /bin/sh: 1: python: not found > make[2]: *** [Makefile:168: out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127 > make[1]: *** [Makefile:84: build] Error 2 > make: ***

[coreboot] Re: Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-09 Thread Piotr Szymaniak
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 06:57:10PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > No offense, but you may be better off with buying some device which has > coreboot pre-installed (if that's what you want). For a list of > vendors who sell devices with coreboot/SeaBIOS pre-installed, look at > the section "Consumer

[coreboot] Re: Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-09 Thread Merlin Büge
Hi Peter and Piotr, thank you for your replies. Maybe I misunderstood what Bernd is trying to achieve. If so, I'm sorry. Generally, I very much encourage people to play around with FW/HW/SW and to learn how (seemingly) complex stuff works. However, it sounded to me that Bernd was actually

[coreboot] Re: Weird thoughts about blobs (was Re: Re: Another year, another blob?)

2021-11-09 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Dear coreboot project, this discussion heated up and escalated considerably, to the point where things got personal. I have since put Nico and Martin into temporary moderation for this mailing list, in an attempt to get the temperature down at least within the project. The timing of me doing