GNU Boot – Libreboot 20140903 release
Author: Leah Rowe
Date: 2014-09-03

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Article published by: Leah Rowe

Date of publication: 3 September 2014

## Revisions for r20140903 (6th beta) (3rd September 2014)

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- Added modified builddeb* scripts for Parabola GNU+Linux-libre: buildpac, buildpac-flashrom, buildpac-bucts (courtesy of Noah Vesely)
- Documentation: updated all relevant areas to mention use of buildpac* scripts for Parabola users.
- Documentation: added information showing how to enable or disable bluetooth on the X60
- MacBook1,1 tested! See hardware/#macbook11
- Documentation: fixed typo in #get_edid_panelname (get-edit changed to get-edid)
- Documentation: added images/x60_lcd_change/ (pics only for now)
- Added gcry_serpent and gcry_whirlpool to the GRUB module list in the ‘build’ script (for luks users)
- Libreboot is now based on a new coreboot version from August 23rd, 2014:
  Merged commits (relates to boards that were already supported in libreboot):
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6697/
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6698/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6699/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6696/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6695/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5927/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6717/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6718/ (merged already)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6723/ (merged already) (text-mode patch, might enable memtest. macbook21)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6732/ (MERGED) (remove useless ps/2 keyboard delay from macbook21. already merged)
- These were also merged in coreboot (relates to boards that libreboot already supported):
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5320/ (merged)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5321/ (merged)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5323/ (merged)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6693/ (merged)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6694/ (merged)
  - http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5324/ (merged)
- Documentation: removed the section about tft_brightness on X60 (new code makes it obsolete)
- Removed all patches from resources/libreboot/patch/ and added new patch: 0000_t60_textmode.git.diff
- Updated getcb script and DEBLOB script.
- Updated configuration files under resources/libreboot/config/ to accomodate new coreboot version.
- Removed grub_serial*.cfg and libreboot_serial*.rom, all configs/rom files are now unified (containing same configuration as serial rom files from before).
  - Documentation: updated #rom to reflect the above.
- Updated GRUB to new version from August 14th, 2014.
- Unified all grub configurations for all systems to a single grub.cfg under resources/grub/config/
- Updated flashrom to new version from August 20th, 2014
- Added getseabios and builddeps-seabios (builddeps and getall were also updated)
  - Added instructions to ‘buildrom-withgrub’ to include bios.bin.elf and vgaroms/vgabios.bin from SeaBIOS inside the ROM.
- Added seabios (and sgavgabios) to grub as payload option in menu
- Disabled serial output in Memtest86+ (no longer needed) to speed up tests.
  - MemTest86+ now works properly, it can output on the laptop screen (no serial port needed anymore).
- Added getgrubinvaders, builddeps-grubinvaders scripts. Added these to getall and builddeps.
  - Added GRUB Invaders menu entry in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg
- Added rules to builddeps-coreboot to build libpayload with TinyCurses. (added appropriate instructions to cleandeps script).
- Commented out lines in resources/grub/config/grub.cfg for loading font/background (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in text-mode).
- Commented out lines in buildrom-withgrub that included backgrounds/fonts (not useful anymore, now that GRUB is in text-mode).
- Added resources/utilities/i945-pwm/ (from git://git.mtjm.eu/i945-pwm), for debugging acpi brightness on i945 systems.
  - Added instructions for it in builddeps, builddeps-i945pwm, builddeb and cleandeps
- ‘build’ script: removed the parts that generated sha512sum manifests (not needed, since release tarballs are GPG-signed)
- ‘build’ script: removed the parts that generated libreboot_meta directory (not needed anymore, since _meta will be hosted in git)
  - Updated #build_meta (and other parts of documentation) to accomodate this change.
- Documentation: simplified (refactored) the notes in #rom
- ‘build’ script: removed the parts that generated libreboot_bin and added them to a new script: ‘build-release’
  - Documentation: #build updated to reflect the above.
- Added all gcry_* modules to grub (luks/cryptomount): gcry_arcfour gcry_camellia gcry_crc gcry_dsa gcry_md4 gcry_rfc2268 gcry_rmd160 gcry_seed gcry_sha1 gcry_sha512 gcry_twofish gcry_blowfish gcry_cast5 gcry_des gcry_idea gcry_md5 gcry_rijndael gcry_rsa gcry_serpent gcry_sha256 gcry_tiger gcry_whirlpool
- Added GNUtoo’s list of GRUB modules (includes all of the gcry_* modules above), cryptomount should be working now.
- Removed builddeb-bucts and builddeb-flashrom, merged them with builddeb ( updated accordingly)
- Removed buildpac-bucts and buildpac-flashrom, merged them with buildpac ( updated accordingly)
- Renamed buildpac to deps-parabola ( updated accordingly)
- Documentation: removed all parts talking about build dependencies, replaced them with links to #build_dependencies
- Documentation: emphasized more strongly on the documentation, the need to re-build bucts and/or flashrom before flashing a ROM image.
- build-release: flashrom, nvramtool, cbfstool and bucts are no longer provided pre-compiled in binary archives, and are now in source form only. (to maximize distro compatibility).
- ‘build’ script: replaced grub.elf assembly instructons, it is now handled by a utility added under resources/utilities/grub-assemble
- Moved resources/grub/keymap to resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap, and updated that utility to use it
- Documentation: removed useless links to pictures of keyboard layouts and unmodified layouts.
- Removed all unused fonts from dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34/ directory
- ‘buildrom-withgrub’ script: updated it to create 2 sets of ROMs for each system: one with text-mode, one with coreboot framebuffer.
- Documentation: updated #rom to reflect the above
- Deleted unused README and COPYING file from main directory
- Removed some rm -Rf .git* instructions from the get* scripts and moved them to build-release script
- Split up default grub.cfg into 6 parts: extra/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg} and menuentries/{common.cfg,txtmode.cfg,vesafb.cfg}
  - buildrom-withgrub script uses these to generate the correct grub.cfg for each type of configuration.
- grub_memdisk.cfg (used inside grub.elf) now only loads grub.cfg from cbfs. It no longer enables serial output or sets prefix. (menuentries/common.cfg does instead)
- resources/grub/config/extra/common.cfg, added:
  - insmod instructions to load those modules: nativedisk, ehci, ohci, uhci, usb, usbserial_pl2303, usbserial_ftdi, usbserial_usbdebug
  - set prefix=(memdisk)/boot/grub
  - For native graphics (recommended by coreboot wiki):
    gfxpayload=keep
    terminal_output --append gfxterm
  - Play a beep on startup:
    play 480 440 1
- Documentation: updated gnulinux/grub_cbfs.html to make it safer (and easier) to follow.

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