[coreboot] coreboot with GRUB2 for ARM Chromebook (veyron_jaq)

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> Looking through the web I found some posts about GRUB2 is not ARM
> compatible, but GRUB2 2.02 has ARM support. Now I also found this
> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/GRUB:

Thank you for the findings. I was not aware of this: *"**Both ARM and ARM64
are now supported in upstream GRUB - both are available in the grub 2.02
betas, and included in several Linux distributions. The ARM port supports
U-Boot (but should shortly support also UEFI), and the ARM64 port supports
UEFI."*

Extremely important (in *RED*), for computing continuum: notebooks/laptops, DT,
WS and servers. Since here, I (speaking about myself) would like to have
ability to work bilingually with major Linux distros, as well as WIN10 on
ARMv8 platforms - WIN10 can be booted from GRUB2 (ported on UEFI, better
be/I hope) boot menu (lot of ARM licencees around), as well as on INTEL
ones (hope lot of other folks will share my opinion).

Competition is good, competition is right! Makes this World we live in more
democratic, doesn't it? :-)

Zoran

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Martin Wohlert <martin at b-root-force.de>
wrote:

> Looking through the web I found some posts about GRUB2 is not ARM
> compatible, but GRUB2 2.02 has ARM support. Now I also found this
> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/GRUB:
>
> Both ARM and ARM64 are now supported in upstream GRUB - both are
> available in the grub 2.02 betas, and included in several Linux
> distributions. The ARM port supports U-Boot (but should shortly support
> also UEFI), and the ARM64 port supports UEFI.
>
> So officially u-boot and UEFI are supposed to work. But in the git
> repository is also an arm_coreboot branch. But the make command always
> fetches the HEAD branch which is 2.02 beta 3.
>
> Maybe I need to edit the Makefile to use that arm_coreboot branch. Will
> try that, but if anyone still has other ideas I will appreciate that.
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
> Am 19.12.2016 um 09:28 schrieb John Lewis:
> > I don't think Grub2 is ARM compatible, so you will need to build another
> > payload (uboot maybe). Others around here will have a better idea of how
> > to achieve that but you should also look for documentation first to see
> > how far you can get on your own.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John.
> >
> > Sent from BlueMail <http://www.bluemail.me/r>
> > On 19 Dec 2016, at 08:22, Martin Wohlert <martin at b-root-force.de
> > <mailto:martin at b-root-force.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello everybody!
> >
> >     I have a Chromebook (Medion Akoya S2013) which is the german version
> of
> >     the Haier Chromebook 11 (veyron_jaq).
> >
> >     And I fail to build the coreboot.
> >
> >     Here what I've done so far (which you can reproduce yourself):
> >
> >     1. like told me on https://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO
> >     $ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot
> >     $ cd coreboot
> >     $ git submodule update --init --checkout
> >
> >     2. $ make menuconfig
> >     There I only changed "Mainboard" > "Mainboard vendor" & "Mainboard
> >     model" to Google / Haier Chromebook 11 (veyron_jaq). The ROM size of
> 4
> >     MB is also correct. I read the flash chip and got a 4 MB image.
> >
> >     3. Still in menuconfig I selected GRUB2 in "Payload" > "Add a
> Payload".
> >
> >     4. $ make crosstools-arm
> >     succeeded without errors
> >
> >     5. $ make
> >     Fails with error:
> >
> >         HOSTCC
> >     cbfstool/xxhash.o
> >         HOSTCC     cbfstool/linux_trampoline.o
> >         HOSTCC     cbfstool/cbfs-payload-linux.o
> >         HOSTCC     cbfstool/cbfstool (link)
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >     Created CBFS (capacity = 4062936 bytes)
> >     Performing operation on 'BOOTBLOCK' region...
> >     W: Written area will abut bottom of target region: any unused space
> will
> >     keep its current contents
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >         CBFS       fallback/romstage
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >         CBFS       fallback/ramstage
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >         CBFS       config
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >         CBFS       revision
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >         CBFS       fallback/payload
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >     Performing operation on 'COREBOOT' region...
> >     ERROR: Ramstage region _ramstage overlapped by:
> >     fallback/payload
> >     make: *** [Makefile.inc:992: check-ramstage-overlaps] Error 1
> >
> >     See full log here: https://files.b-root-force.de/coreboot.txt
> >
> >     What I find a bit suspicious is the output:
> >     ...
> >     GRUB2 will be compiled with following components:
> >     Platform: i386-coreboot
> >     ...
> >     Cause I am building for ARM.
> >
> >     So, does anyone have an idea what I can try next?
> >
> >     Kind regards
> >     Martin
> >
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