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system76-coreboot/payloads/libpayload
Gabe Black 0c605a5a6c CBFS: Change the signature of cbfs_decompress.
Instead of returning 0 on success and -1 on error, return the decompressed
size of the data on success and 0 on error. The decompressed size is useful
information to have that was being thrown away in that function.

Change-Id: If787201aa61456b1e47feaf3a0071c753fa299a3
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3578
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
2013-08-15 20:10:39 +02:00
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2012-11-30 23:20:54 +01:00
2013-06-28 10:39:57 +02:00
2012-04-04 00:40:31 +02:00

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libpayload README
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libpayload is a minimal library to support standalone payloads
that can be booted with firmware like coreboot. It handles the setup
code, and provides common C library symbols such as malloc() and printf().

Note: This is _not_ a standard library for use with an operating system,
rather it's only useful for coreboot payload development!
See http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot.


Installation
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 $ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot.git

 $ cd coreboot/payloads/libpayload

 $ make menuconfig

 $ make

 $ sudo make install (optional, will install into /opt per default)

As libpayload is for 32bit x86 systems only, you might have to install the
32bit libgcc version, otherwise your payloads will fail to compile.
On Debian systems you'd do 'apt-get install gcc-multilib' for example.


Usage
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Here's an example of a very simple payload (hello.c) and how to build it:

 #include <libpayload.h>

 int main(void)
 {
     printf("Hello, world!\n");
     return 0;
 }

Building the payload using the 'lpgcc' compiler wrapper:

 $ lpgcc -o hello.elf hello.c

Please see the sample/ directory for details.


Website and Mailing List
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The main website is http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload.

For additional information, patches, and discussions, please join the
coreboot mailing list at http://coreboot.org/Mailinglist, where most
libpayload developers are subscribed.


Copyright and License
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See LICENSES.