CAR bootblock is most likely fixing a lot of the issues here, decreasing amount of binaries that need to be located at exact offset to bootblock
(not checked).
Moving cbfs creation to libreboot would lower the space required, accelerate the build process, and decrease cost of adding new board to about 128KiB or less.
When libreboot would save individual binaries instead of entire image, it's important to check contents of cbfs generated by coreboot system, and in case libreboot didn't save a copy of everything - throw an error.
if you look at the comments in x86/memlayout.ld, cbfstool needs some magic for XIP to work
readelf -h build/cbfs/fallback/*.elf
File: build/cbfs/fallback/bootblock.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xfffffff0
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83248 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 11
Section header string table index: 10
File: build/cbfs/fallback/bootblock.raw.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xfffffff0
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83248 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 11
Section header string table index: 10
File: build/cbfs/fallback/postcar.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x2000000
Start of program headers: 372 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 1
File: build/cbfs/fallback/ramstage.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xe00000
Start of program headers: 372 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 1
File: build/cbfs/fallback/romstage.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x2000000
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83452 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 7
CAR bootblock is most likely fixing a lot of the issues here, decreasing amount of binaries that need to be located at exact offset to bootblock
(not checked).
Moving cbfs creation to libreboot would lower the space required, accelerate the build process, and decrease cost of adding new board to about 128KiB or less.
When libreboot would save individual binaries instead of entire image, it's important to check contents of cbfs generated by coreboot system, and in case libreboot didn't save a copy of everything - throw an error.
> if you look at the comments in x86/memlayout.ld, cbfstool needs some magic for XIP to work
```
readelf -h build/cbfs/fallback/*.elf
File: build/cbfs/fallback/bootblock.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xfffffff0
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83248 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 11
Section header string table index: 10
File: build/cbfs/fallback/bootblock.raw.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xfffffff0
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83248 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 11
Section header string table index: 10
File: build/cbfs/fallback/postcar.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x2000000
Start of program headers: 372 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 1
File: build/cbfs/fallback/ramstage.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xe00000
Start of program headers: 372 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 1
File: build/cbfs/fallback/romstage.elf
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x2000000
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 83452 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 8
Section header string table index: 7
```
Swift Geek
CAR bootblock is most likely fixing a lot of the issues here, decreasing amount of binaries that need to be located at exact offset to bootblock (not checked).
Moving cbfs creation to libreboot would lower the space required, accelerate the build process, and decrease cost of adding new board to about 128KiB or less.
When libreboot would save individual binaries instead of entire image, it's important to check contents of cbfs generated by coreboot system, and in case libreboot didn't save a copy of everything - throw an error.