[coreboot] elf payload legacybios - boots on v3 in qemu

[Kevin O'Connor]

Hi,

The latest git version of legacybios now supports building an elf
payload.  I've successfully booted it using coreboot-v3 under qemu.

Note that the payload likely wont work on real hardware - see my
previous email on legacybios and coreboot.

To build, pull the latest legacybios from git (see
http://git.linuxtogo.org ) and run make.  The resulting elf payload
will be in out/bios.bin.elf.  I've also placed a payload (with serial
debugging) at:

http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/legacybios/bios.bin.elf-20080510

Unfortunately, the payload will not boot on coreboot-v2.  It seems v2
will not let one load a binary into the 0xf0000 area:

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New segment addr 0xf0000 size 0x10000 offset 0x1000 filesize 0x10000
(cleaned up) New segment addr 0xf0000 size 0x10000 offset 0x1000 filesize 0x10000
No matching ram area found for range:
  [0x00000000000f0000, 0x0000000000100000)
Ram areas
  [0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000001000) Reserved
  [0x0000000000001000, 0x00000000000f0000) RAM
  [0x00000000000f0000, 0x0000000000100000) Reserved
  [0x0000000000100000, 0x0000000008000000) RAM
Can not load ELF Image.
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Some sample v3 messages:

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LAR: CHECK normal/payload/segment0 @ 0xfffc3e30
start 0xfffc3e80 len 23167 reallen 65536 compression 1 entry 0x000f6c90 loadaddress 0
x000f0000
LAR: Compression algorithm #1 (lzma) used
LAR: Attempting to open 'normal/payload/segment1'.
LAR: Start 0xfffc0000 len 0x40000
LAR: seen member normal/option_table
LAR: seen member normal/initram/segment0
LAR: seen member normal/stage2/segment0
LAR: seen member normal/stage2/segment1
LAR: seen member normal/stage2/segment2
LAR: seen member normal/payload/segment0
LAR: seen member bootblock
LAR: File not found!
LAR: load_file: No such file 'normal/payload/segment1'
LAR: load_file_segments: All loaded, entry 0x000f6c90
Start bios
BIOS - begin

Starting rombios32
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-Kevin