coreboot

coreboot changelog Jan 27 – Feb 2

This changelog covers 131 commits in the week between January 27, 2016 and February 2, 2016. (dd4b66e2 – 95909924)

The biggest news of the past week was getting the 4.3 release done. The 4.4 release should come towards the end of April.

Of particular note to anyone submitting patches, we added 2 new code checkers this week, one to verify that the executable bit isn’t set on source files, and one to verify that the standard coreboot license header is used on files using the GPL 2 or 2+ licenses. These checks will be run automatically when you commit code if you have the git commit hook in place, and will also be run on the build server.

coreboot again had numerous patches surrounding the build system, tools, and utilities. The flood of cbfstool related patches finally slowed a bit, but we still had some cleanup, both in the tool and in the cbfs sections of the Makefiles. In the toolchain area, we updated LLVM to version 3.7.1, and added GNU Make to the toolchain. The addition of make was to address some upcoming patches that needed the newer version, as well as to support platforms that don’t install GNU make by default. The kconfig_lint tool had various updates to get rid of warnings that we don’t care about, to add documentation, and to add a couple of additional checks. Next week will see a few more fixes, and it will be put in place as a stable lint tool.

We had significant updates to a number of mainboards and the related chipsets in the past week as well. Intel had a large number of changes for their Braswell SoC and its reference board, Strago, merged this week. These included fixes for GPIOs, clocks, SD cards, and thermal support, as well as FSP integration updates. The Asus kgpe-d16 mainboard, along with the AMD Fam10h-Fam15h processor directory and the SB700 soutbridge had numerous patches to improve stability, fix IRQ routing and APIC identification, and improve ACPI. The winbond w83667hg-a was added to the coreboot codebase for the board as well. The Intel d510mo board had some improvements related to native graphics initialization, GPIOs and ACPI. The gigabyte ga-g41m-es2l and the Intel x4x northbridge code had some general cleanup and improvements to cbmem and memory initialization. We also saw the introduction of the initial framework for the new Intel Apollo Lake SoC. We’ll be seeing many more patches related to Apollo Lake in the coming weeks.

Other changes of note included code to initialize the PS/2 aux port, a way to access memory address 0 without GCC “optimizing” it into a crash, and the addition of some documentation from Intel about developing new FSP based boards and chipsets. Finally, the Intel sklrvp Skylake reference board was dropped in favor of using the kunimitsu board.

coreboot statistics for the past week

- Total commits: 131
- New authors: 8
- Total authors: 30
- Total lines added: 3833
- Total lines removed: -3652
- Delta: 181

=== Top Authors - Number of commits ===
Timothy Pearson              22 (16.794%)
Martin Roth                  21 (16.031%)
Patrick Georgi               15 (11.450%)
Damien Zammit                13 (9.924%)
Hannah Williams              12 (9.160%)
Leroy P Leahy                 5 (3.817%)
Stefan Reinauer               5 (3.817%)
Divagar Mohandass             4 (3.053%)
Vladimir Serbinenko           3 (2.290%)
Alexandru Gagniuc             3 (2.290%)
Total Authors: 31

=== Top Authors - Lines added ===
Damien Zammit               725 (18.915%)
Timothy Pearson             701 (18.289%)
Leroy P Leahy               646 (16.854%)
Subrata Banik               427 (11.140%)
Martin Roth                 262 (6.835%)
Aaron Durbin                204 (5.322%)
Patrick Georgi              179 (4.670%)
Alexandru Gagniuc           140 (3.652%)
shkim                       107 (2.792%)
Nico Huber                   91 (2.374%)

=== Top Authors - Lines removed ===
Martin Roth                1688 (46.221%)
Hannah Williams             661 (18.100%)
Divagar Mohandass           315 (8.625%)
Damien Zammit               307 (8.406%)
Timothy Pearson             212 (5.805%)
Patrick Georgi              104 (2.848%)
Nico Huber                  102 (2.793%)
Leroy P Leahy                95 (2.601%)
Stefan Reinauer              43 (1.177%)
Lee Leahy                    23 (0.630%)

=== Top Reviewers - Number of patches reviewed ===
Martin Roth                  71 (54.198%)
Stefan Reinauer              20 (15.267%)
Patrick Georgi               18 (13.740%)
Paul Menzel                  16 (12.214%)
Alexandru Gagniuc            14 (10.687%)
Aaron Durbin                 10 (7.634%)
Felix Held                    8 (6.107%)
Timothy Pearson               7 (5.344%)
Nico Huber                    4 (3.053%)
Alexander Couzens             3 (2.290%)
Total Reviewers: 15

=== Top Submitters - Number of patches merged ===
Martin Roth                  94 (71.756%)
Patrick Georgi               15 (11.450%)
Stefan Reinauer               8 (6.107%)
Leroy P Leahy                 6 (4.580%)
Vladimir Serbinenko           3 (2.290%)
Nico Huber                    2 (1.527%)
Aaron Durbin                  2 (1.527%)
Werner Zeh                    1 (0.763%)
Total Submitters: 8

coreboot changelog Jan 20 – Jan 26

This changelog covers 111 commits in the week between January 20, 2016 and January 26, 2016. (aad9b6a – 7ee6cd5)

There was another large set of patches continuing the work that has been done extending cbfs and integrating FMAP. This series is expected to be finished in just a few more patches.

This past week saw the addition of two new mainboards – the Google Tidus board (Lenovo ThinkCentre Chromebox), and the Purism Librem 13 laptop. Updates to the Google Oak board and its associated SoC, the Mediatek MT8173 Cortex A72, accounted for roughly 20% of this week’s changes.

The AMD native memory initialization for the family10h/family15h chips had more changes, with still more coming next week. On the Intel side, the Pineview northbridge saw a couple of updates, and there were several fixes for for Intel’s Braswell and Skylake chips.

coreboot also had some more toolchain updates this week, adding an ada compiler for some upcoming work, and getting the gcc build set up for the Power8 work. There were also a couple of fixes for building tools under NetBSD

In the coming week, we should get the 4.3 release finished, and see a slew of changes as the patches that are currently in review get merged.

coreboot statistics for the past week

- Total commits: 111
- New authors: 11
- Total authors: 36
- Total lines added: 10885
- Total lines removed: -604
- Delta: 10281

=== Authors - Number of commits ===
Patrick Georgi       15 (13.514%)
Martin Roth          11 (9.910%)
Nico Huber            8 (7.207%)
Timothy Pearson       8 (7.207%)
Duncan Laurie         7 (6.306%)
Alexandru Gagniuc     6 (5.405%)
Werner Zeh            5 (4.505%)
Damien Zammit         4 (3.604%)
Itamar                4 (3.604%)
Yidi Lin              3 (2.703%)
Felix Durairaj        3 (2.703%)
Koro Chen             3 (2.703%)
Aaron Durbin          3 (2.703%)
Total Authors: 36

=== Authors - Lines added ===
Matt DeVillier     2456 (22.563%)
Patrick Georgi     1968 (18.080%)
Duncan Laurie      1264 (11.612%)
Timothy Pearson    1260 (11.576%)
Tianping Fang       505 (4.639%)
Liguo Zhang         460 (4.226%)
Leilk Liu           418 (3.840%)
David Hendricks     395 (3.629%)
Chunfeng Yun        368 (3.381%)
Subrata Banik       321 (2.949%)

=== Authors - Lines removed ===
Patrick Georgi      158 (26.159%)
Timothy Pearson     137 (22.682%)
Aaron Durbin         75 (12.417%)
Stefan Reinauer      30 (4.967%)
Martin Roth          25 (4.139%)
Nico Huber           24 (3.974%)
Alexandru Gagniuc    23 (3.808%)
T.H.Lin              21 (3.477%)
Damien Zammit        20 (3.311%)
Duncan Laurie        20 (3.311%)

=== Reviewers - Number of patches reviewed ===
Martin Roth          48 (43.243%)
Stefan Reinauer      28 (25.225%)
Patrick Georgi       26 (23.423%)
Paul Menzel          17 (15.315%)
Alexandru Gagniuc    12 (10.811%)
Aaron Durbin         12 (10.811%)
Ronald G. Minnich     5 (4.505%)
Nico Huber            2 (1.802%)
Timothy Pearson       2 (1.802%)
Felix Held            2 (1.802%)
Total Reviewers: 17

=== Submitters - Number of patches merged ===
Patrick Georgi       58 (52.252%)
Martin Roth          30 (27.027%)
Aaron Durbin          7 (6.306%)
Nico Huber            6 (5.405%)
Werner Zeh            5 (4.505%)
Stefan Reinauer       3 (2.703%)
Duncan Laurie         2 (1.802%)
Total Submitters: 7

coreboot changelog Jan 5 – Jan 19

This changelog covers the 180 commits between January 5, 2016 and

January 19, 2016. (af91b8b0 – 967881d0)

We’re preparing for the coreboot 4.3 release, expected to happen sometime in the next week, so there has been a lot of activity surrounding Intel’s Skylake chips, both in the mainboards and SOC directories. The Skylake and braswell platforms are finally being build-tested by jenkins, which will help keep the platforms working.

The changes in cbfstool are continuing to roll in, although this should be wrapping up before long as the merger of cbfs with FMAP is completed.

The effort to standardize coreboot’s license headers across all files is just starting, and will be going on for a few weeks as we verify that all source files have the correct headers. We’ve added and improved the lint checkers for these so expect failures from jenkins if files with non-compliant headers are pushed.

A fair amount of work was done in the build system in the past couple of weeks. This removed the warnings about cross compilers not existing unless that architecture is currently being built, fixed some dependency issues, and fixed several other minor issues. A make target to check the versions of the coreboot toolchain was also added.

We had a slight toolchain change, going to MPFR version 3.1.3 to fix some issues seen on the upcoming Power8 processor.

Additional changes added NetBSD support for various utilities, and update the intel/gm45 and intel/pineview northbridges.

Added 1 mainboard:

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– google/guado

coreboot statistics

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– Total commits: 180

– New authors: 13

– Total authors: 45

– Total reviewers: 19

– Total lines added: 9168

– Total lines removed: -2130

– Total difference: 7038

=== Authors – Number of commits ===

Martin Roth 56 (31.111%)

David Wu 15 (8.333%)

Aaron Durbin 12 (6.667%)

Duncan Laurie 9 (5.000%)

Subrata Banik 8 (4.444%)

Rizwan Qureshi 7 (3.889%)

Nico Huber 6 (3.333%)

Patrick Georgi 6 (3.333%)

Timothy Pearson 5 (2.778%)

Barnali Sarkar 5 (2.778%)

Total Authors: 45

=== Authors – Lines added ===

Martin Roth 2359 (25.731%)

Matt DeVillier 2243 (24.466%)

Aaron Durbin 1988 (21.684%)

Rizwan Qureshi 606 (6.610%)

Subrata Banik 292 (3.185%)

Barnali Sarkar 178 (1.942%)

robbie zhang 158 (1.723%)

Nico Huber 144 (1.571%)

Andrey Korolyov 133 (1.451%)

David Wu 128 (1.396%)

=== Authors – Lines removed ===

Martin Roth 1038 (48.732%)

Barnali Sarkar 173 (8.122%)

Aaron Durbin 144 (6.761%)

Nico Huber 108 (5.070%)

Patrick Georgi 98 (4.601%)

Shaunak Saha 81 (3.803%)

Paul Menzel 69 (3.239%)

Patrick Rudolph 68 (3.192%)

Subrata Banik 64 (3.005%)

Duncan Laurie 61 (2.864%)

=== Reviewers – Number of patches reviewed ===

Martin Roth 91 (50.556%)

Stefan Reinauer 43 (23.889%)

Patrick Georgi 43 (23.889%)

Paul Menzel 23 (12.778%)

Alexandru Gagniuc 13 (7.222%)

Nico Huber 7 (3.889%)

York Yang 3 (1.667%)

Werner Zeh 3 (1.667%)

Aaron Durbin 3 (1.667%)

Total Reviewers: 19

=== Submitters – Number of patches submitted ===

Martin Roth 89 (49.444%)

Patrick Georgi 73 (40.556%)

Aaron Durbin 9 (5.000%)

Stefan Reinauer 4 (2.222%)

Vladimir Serbinenko 3 (1.667%)

Werner Zeh 1 (0.556%)

Nico Huber 1 (0.556%)

Total Submitters: 7