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author | Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com> | 2018-06-18 13:23:27 +0200 |
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committer | Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com> | 2018-06-19 18:09:04 +0000 |
commit | 8c986ab26358b40863f7404c97e8afbb118789f1 (patch) | |
tree | 58faa4c51352152a6bd58a7d0bd86cf8f100fd66 /Documentation/vendorcode | |
parent | a45e9f8106e0ae8f3315f7ca7d707eab171551d7 (diff) |
Documentation: Add cavium SoC and mainboard
* Add documentation for CN81XX SoC
* Add documentation for CN81XX EVB SFF mainboard
* Add documentation for BDK
* Add documentation for BOOTROM and BOOTBLOCK behaviour
* Alphabetically sort vendors
Change-Id: Ibfcd42788e31f684baed658dc3c4dfe1b8e4f354
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27150
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <david.hendricks@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vendorcode')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/bdk.md | 30 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/index.md | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vendorcode/index.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/bdk.md b/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/bdk.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5763ece254 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/bdk.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Cavium's BDK + +## BDK +A part of Cavium's BDK can be found in '''src/vendorcode/cavium/bdk'''. +It does the **DRAM init** in romstage and the **PCIe**, **QLM**, **SLI**, +**PHY**, **BGX**, **SATA** init in ramstage. + +## Devicetree +The BDK does use it's own devicetree, as coreboot's devicetree isn't +compatible. The devicetree stores key-value pairs (see **bdk-devicetree.h** +for implementation details), where the key and the value are stored as strings. + +The key-value pairs must be advertised in romstage and ramstage using the +'''bdk_config_set_fdt()''' method. + +The tool '''util/cavium/devicetree_convert.py''' can be used to convert a +devicetree to a key-value array. + +## Modifications + +* The BDK has been modified to compile under coreboot's toolchain. +* Removed FDT devicetree support. +* Dropped files that aren't required for SoC bringup +* Added Kconfig values for verbose console output + +## Debugging + +You can enable verbose console output in *menuconfig*: + +Go to **Chipset**, **BDK** and enable one or multiple stages. diff --git a/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/index.md b/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e06e2ba009 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vendorcode/cavium/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Cavium vendorcode-specific documentation + +This section contains documentation about coreboot on Cavium specific +vendorcode. + +## Sections + +- [BDK](bdk.md) diff --git a/Documentation/vendorcode/index.md b/Documentation/vendorcode/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3374eafc67 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vendorcode/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Vendorcode-specific documentation + +This section contains documentation about coreboot on specific vendorcode. + +## Vendor + +- [Cavium](cavium/index.md) |