The sequence to inject microcode updates is virtually the same for all
Intel CPUs. The same function is used to inject the update in both CBFS
and hardcoded cases, and in both of these cases, the microcode resides in
the ROM. This should be a safe change across the board.
The function which loaded compiled-in microcode is also removed here in
order to prevent it from being used in the future.
The dummy terminators from microcode need to be removed if this change is
to work when generating microcode from several microcode_blob.c files, as
is the case for older socketed CPUs. Removal of dummy terminators is done
in a subsequent patch.
Change-Id: I2cc8220cc4cd4a87aa7fc750e6c60ccdfa9986e9
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4495
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@gmail.com>
CPU_MICROCODE_IN_CBFS was designed to mean that loading microcode updates
from a CBFS file is supported, however, the name implies that microcode is
present in CBFS. This has recently caused confusion both with contributions
from Google, as well as SAGE. Rename this option to
SUPPORT_CPU_UCODE_IN_CBFS in order to make it clearer that what is meant is
"hey, the code we have for this CPU supports loading microcode updates from
CBFS", and prevent further confusion.
Change-Id: I394555f690b5ab4cac6fbd3ddbcb740ab1138339
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4482
Reviewed-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
This patch only applies to CONFIG_MICROCODE_IN_CBFS. The intel microcode
update routine would always walk the CBFS for the microcode file. Then
it would loop through the whole file looking for a match then load the
microcode. This process was maintained for intel_update_microcode_from_cbfs(),
however 2 new functions were exported:
1. const void *intel_microcode_find(void)
2. void intel_microcode_load_unlocked(const void *microcode_patch)
The first locates a matching microcode while the second loads that
mircocode. These new functions can then be used to cache the found
microcode blob w/o having to re-walk the CBFS.
Booted baskingridge board to Linux and noted that all microcode
revisions match on all the CPUs.
Change-Id: Ifde3f3e5c100911c4f984dd56d36664a8acdf7d5
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2778
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
This patch aims to improve the microcode in CBFS handling that was
brought by the last patches from Stefan and the Chromium team.
Choices in Kconfig
- 1) Generate microcode from tree (default)
- 2) Include external microcode file
- 3) Do not put microcode in CBFS
The idea is to give the user full control over including non-free
blobs in the final ROM image.
MICROCODE_INCLUDE_PATH Kconfig variable is eliminated. Microcode
is handled by a special class, cpu_microcode, as such:
cpu_microcode-y += microcode_file.c
MICROCODE_IN_CBFS should, in the future, be eliminated. Right now it is
needed by intel microcode updating. Once all intel cpus are converted to
cbfs updating, this variable can go away.
These files are then compiled and assembled into a binary CBFS file.
The advantage of doing it this way versus the current method is that
1) The rule is CPU-agnostic
2) Gives user more control over if and how to include microcode blobs
3) The rules for building the microcode binary are kept in
src/cpu/Makefile.inc, and thus would not clobber the other makefiles,
which are already overloaded and very difficult to navigate.
Change-Id: I38d0c9851691aa112e93031860e94895857ebb76
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/1245
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Anton Kochkov <anton.kochkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
When CONFIG_MICROCODE_IN_CBFS is enabled, find the microcode blob in
CBFS and pass it to intel_update_microcode() instead of using the
compiled in array.
CBFS accesses in pre-RAM and 'normal' environments are provided
through different API.
Change-Id: I35c1480edf87e550a7b88c4aadf079cf3ff86b5d
Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/1296
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
- add GPLv2 + copyright header after talking to Ron
- "bits" in struct microcode served no real purpose but
getting its address taken. Hence drop it
- use asm volatile instead of __asm__ volatile
- drop superfluous wrmsr (that seems to be harmless but
is still wrong) in read_microcode_rev
- use u32 instead of unsigned int where appropriate
- make code usable both in bootblock and in ramstage
- drop ROMCC style print_debug statements
- drop microcode update copy in Sandybridge bootblock
Change-Id: Iec4d5c7bfac210194caf577e8d72446e6dfb4b86
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/928
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
