NetBSD

This page documents coreboot usage with NetBSD. It is probably terser than it could be, as it mostly just describes differences from the more-commonly-documented Linux procedures.

building coreboot on NetBSD

GNU make is required to build coreboot, install it from pkgsrc/devel/gmake.

coreboot v2

As of revision 3363 only one change needs to be made.

<source lang="text"> Index: src/config/Config.lb

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--- src/config/Config.lb (revision 3389) +++ src/config/Config.lb (working copy) @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

makedefine CPP:= $(CC) -x assembler-with-cpp -DASSEMBLY -E
makedefine LIBGCC_FILE_NAME := $(shell $(CC) -print-libgcc-file-name)

-makedefine GCC_INC_DIR := $(shell LC_ALL=C $(CC) -print-search-dirs | sed -ne "s/install: \(.*\)/\1include/gp") +makedefine GCC_INC_DIR := /usr/include

makedefine CPPFLAGS := -I$(TOP)/src/include -I$(TOP)/src/arch/$(ARCH)/include -I$(GCC_INC_DIR) $(CPUFLAGS)
makedefine CFLAGS := $(CPU_OPT) $(DISTRO_CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -Os -nostdinc -nostdlib -fno-builtin  -Wall

</source>

coreboot v3

<source lang="text"> Index: Makefile

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--- Makefile (revision 690) +++ Makefile (working copy) @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@

# Note: This _must_ come after 'CC' is set for the second time in this
# Makefile (see above), otherwise the build would break if 'gcc' isn't
# the compiler actually used for the build (e.g. on cross compiler setups).

-CFLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem `$(CC) -print-file-name=include` +CFLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem /usr/include

include lib/Makefile
include device/Makefile

</source>

On NetBSD libintl is required to build kconfig. <source lang="bash"> gmake INTLLIBS=-lintl menuconfig </source>

building LegacyBIOS on NetBSD

A change is required to legacybios/Makefile, then gmake can be used to build LegacyBIOS in the normal way. <source lang="text"> -$(Q)/bin/echo -e '$(foreach i,$2,#include "../$i"\n)' > $3.tmp.c +$(Q)echo -e '$(foreach i,$2,#include "../$i"\n)' > $3.tmp.c </source>

using NetBSD/x86 with coreboot

interrupt routing

Legacy interrupt routing (the PCI interrupt line register) is traditionally not implemented on many mainboards under coreboot. MPBIOS or ACPI will be required.

NetBSD does not (without patching) search for a MPBIOS floating pointer at the location coreboot usually places it. LegacyBIOS does relocate this pointer structure however.

BIOS calls

NetBSD/i386 GENERIC still makes some BIOS calls after boot(8):

• isapnp(4)
• mca(4)

Removal of these subsystems from your kernel config(5) file removes these calls.

Due to the nature of x86_64, BIOS calls on NetBSD/amd64 are not a problem, as they cannot be made from long-mode.

coreboot-related utilities

Both nvramtool and flashrom are in pkgsrc-wip.

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