See, coreboot bug report:
https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/590
We hadn't noticed this for quite a while, since we always
just booted with iomem=relaxed when needing to run cbmem,
since in practise it was always combined with other tasks
that require access to lower memory.
GRUB currently matches coreboot's own mmap for cbmem, but
for example SeaBIOS marks cbmem as E820 reserved. Therefore,
this change replicates the SeaBIOS behaviour.
Without this patch, Linux needs to boot with iomem=relaxed
for cbmem access, for example when running ./cbmem -1
With this patch, cbmem is now accessible regardless. This
patch also prevents Linux from overwriting parts of CBMEM.
Thanks go to Paul Menzel, who wrote this GRUB patch.
Thanks also go to Nicholas Chin, who provided testing, all
the way from Coreboot 25.03 back to Coreboot 4.20. It seems
that this is just something the payloads have to handle.
This means that both SeaBIOS and GRUB no longer have this
bug, in Libreboot; now what remains is to replicate the
test with our U-Boot payload.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Some parts of lbmk set +u +e, to be reset later on
under normal conditions upon exit. We must ensure
such level of integrity in err() as well.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Rely once again on err_, but still explicitly add an exit
just below, in case I made a mistake one day.
err() is essentially a trap that triggers in case I mess
up an error function, so that it doesn't reliably exit.
So, the idea is that everything calls err(), and err() is
almost never modified, or modified very carefully.
If error exits were ever broken, the result could be quite
unpredictable, so lbmk has very strict error handling, and
great care is taken to ensure that it does reliably exit.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
make the command style more consistent, for example
relying on x_ inside a subshell to print the command
and arguments if a command failed.
this is a good style, and i'll probably use it in other
places on lbmk.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Don't directly call a variable. Call a function that
checks the variable instead.
The new err function also checks whether an exit was
actually done, and exits 1 if not.
If an exit was done by the given function, but the exit
was zero, this is also corrected to perform an exit 1.
This fixes a longstanding design flaw of lbmk.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Always certainly redundant, since if -u -e isn't
set, it'll continue to exit anyway.
However, we want to be pedantic about this, since
the safety of lbmk relies entirely on this function
NOT misbehaving.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
it could be that some were left over before, for some
reason. that isn't currently the case, but this will
avoid the possibility in future.
therefore, this is a preemptive bug fix.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
the initial checks are unnecessary, since i always know
what arguments are being provided.
the -f check in the for loop is now an -x instead, more
efficient and complete.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
we know that _dest is always what's set in the coreboot config,
without the ../../../ in it, so just copy both files in a single
function, and call the function twice.
if both files are done on the first call, the second call will
be skipped. if only the first file was done on the first call,
running the download script again will skip the first one, and
grab the second one.
this also avoids having to run the decat function twice, in most
cases, so it's a tiny optimisation.
this optimisation only works if both fsp files (s and m) are to
be extracted into the same directory, which is the case anyway,
and this will always be the case.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Don't copy it until it has been padded properly.
Otherwise, erroneous padding would result in an error,
and who knows what would be left in vendorfiles/ ?
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
If we're in a release work directory, TMPDIR is already
set, so the local ./tmp won't be created, which would
lead to an error.
Fix it by creating xbmklocal before checking TMPDIR.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this silences confusing error messages that the user
sees on the screen, that are actually benign, and it
will thus reduce the number of people who ask questions
on #libreboot irc
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
