Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit (Intel® BLDK) Core 2.3.6.8
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1. suppliers or licensors in any way Except as expressly provided in Intel s standard license terms and conditions for the Intel software product or in the Intel software license agreement accompanying the Intel software product the Intel software product is provided as is without warranty of any kind whether express implied or statutory including but not limited to a warranty of merchantability non infringement of intellectual property or fitness for any particular purpose This document is provided as is without any express implied or statutory warranty of any kind including but not limited to warranties of merchantability noninfringement of intellectual property or fitness for any particular purpose Intel does not warrant or assume responsibility for the accuracy completeness or utility of any information contained herein Intel may make changes to these materials or to the Intel products described therein at any time without notice Intel makes no commitment to update these materials Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others 1 OVERVIEW 2 RELEASE INFORMATION 3 SUPPORTED FEATURES 4 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION 5 BUILD ENVIRONMENT OPERATING SYSTEM 6 BUILD TOOLS REQUIRED ON HOST MACHINE2. as console Overwriting of opt intel udkdebugger bin udk gdb script with the script provided in CrownBayPlatformPkg Application UdkScript is needed to avoid TARGETS hangs when issuing resettarget in UDK debugger Title FirmwareVendor PCD is incorrectly converted from Unicode to ASCII Description In MdeModulePkg dec PcdFirmwareVendor is defined as a null terminated Unicode string This PCD can be customized using Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit Since Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit updates this PCD as an ASCII string this PCD is redefined as an ASCII string in the EDK II based BLDK source code as well Implication If an EFI application or a driver reads the PcdFirmwareVendor PCD directly it should treat the PCD as a null terminated ASCII string Resolution None Workaround 1 Convert the ASCII string to a Unicode string after reading the PCD 2 Read the Firmware Vendor from the System Table and not from PCD Affected O S EFI Shell Title Bad page kernel messages when booting Linux Description When booting Linux with detailed kernel messages the kernel will print out numerous messages saying BUG Bad page state follows by a call trace This happens at numerous places in the boot log but doesn t seem to be affecting functionality Implication Bad page error messages are popped up inside TimeSys Fedora Remix 14 windows Resolution None Workaround Affected O S Timesys Fedora Re
3. 3 Fast Boot in less than 3 seconds ACPI 3 0 Intel R UDK Debugger Tool SPI Flash Update HD Audio Enhanced Intel SpeedStep R Technology Intel R Hyper Threading Technology Processor Virtualization VT x This release has booted to the operating systems listed in Section 8 on a Crown Bay customer reference board using the following configuration PS 2 keyboard and mouse Serial console and LVDS console SATA hard disk AHCI mode USB mouse and keyboard USB thumb drive SD card Crown Bay has memory down rather than DIMMs therefore serial presence detect SPD is not utilized The latest Chipset Microcode CMC Rev 2 1 CO_22211 BIN supports AO BO and B1 If another version of the CMC is desired place the bin file in the appropriate TCMicrocode directory and change the fdf file to include that CMC file in the build All validation of the Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit was done on Windows XP 32 Bit with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Windows 7 64 Bit with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Timesys Fedora Remix 14 with Linux GCC 4 5 1 Tool Chain These are the only supported combinations for Intel R BLDK A Windows Environment a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 b Intel ACPI Source Language iASL Compiler version 20070508 Note Download iasl win 20070508 zip from http www acpica org downloads Version_20070508 php and extract file iaslexe to C ASL c Windows D
4. 7 FLASH IMAGE BUILD STEPS 8 OPERATING SYSTEMS BOOT SUPPORT 9 LIMITATIONS 10 KNOWN ISSUES 11 IMPLEMENTATION NOTES This Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit Intel R BLDK is specifically produced for the Crown Bay platform The components that make up the kit are The Intel R BLDK Development Application The Crown Bay platform code base The Intel R UEFI Development Kit Debugger Tool Documentation including the Getting Started Guide and the User s Guide 2 RELEASE INFORMATION This is the 2 3 6 8 release of the software for the Crown Bay platform It is based on the Intel UEFI Development Kit UDK 2010 Update3 UP3 which is open source posted on TianoCore org plus platform specific code which has been added to this release package All required product features have been implemented however optimization for boot time performance is left to customer s porting efforts EDKII documentation can be downloaded from http sourceforge net projects edk2 files General Documentation EDKII User Manual and EDK II Module Writer s Guide Specifications EDKII Build FDF INF DSC DEC and VFR Specification The following features are supported and have been validated CPU Memory Basic 1 0 Initialization Boot from SATA SD USB Feature configuration through the Intel R BLDK Development Application Windows Tool Chain Windows Source Package GCC Tool Chain Linux Source Package UEFI Specification 2
5. Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit Intel R BLDK Core 2 3 6 8 Based on the UEFI Development Kit 2010 UDK2010 Crown Bay Release Notes December 30 2011 INTEL CONFIDENTIAL Copyright c 1999 2011 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved The source code contained or described herein and all documents related to the source code Material are owned by Intel Corporation or its suppliers or licensors Title to the Material remains with Intel Corporation or its suppliers and licensors The Material may contain trade secrets and proprietary and confidential information of Intel Corporation and its suppliers and licensors and is protected by worldwide copyright and trade secret laws and treaty provisions No part of the Material may be used copied reproduced modified published uploaded posted transmitted distributed or disclosed in any way without Intel s prior express written permission No license under any patent copyright trade secret or other intellectual property right is granted to or conferred upon you by disclosure or delivery of the Materials either expressly by implication inducement estoppel or otherwise Any license under such intellectual property rights must be express and approved by Intel in writing Unless otherwise agreed by Intel in writing you may not remove or alter this notice or any other notice embedded in Materials by Intel or Intel s
6. mix 14 Title Shell time mismatch with OS time when the timezone in shell is changed Description When the system clock is synced to hw clock the hw clock displayed the exact date and time as system clock in OS When the OS was powered off and a cold boot was performed into efi shell the shell time was 8 hours less compared to the OS time ie sys clock This happened even when timezone in shell 2 0 was set to 8 00 Implication EFI Shell time is mismatched with OS system time after EFI timezone is set and synced EFI Shell time with OS system time Resolution None Workaround Use EFI Shell default timezone Affected O S EFI Shell The customer is responsible for implementing security safeguards prior to productizing the Intel R Boot Loader Development Kit
7. river Development Kit WinDDK version 3790 1830 Note Download WinDDK 3790 1830 from http download microsoft com download 9 0 f 90f01 9ac 8243 48d3 91 cf 81 fc4093ecfd 1830_usa_ddk iso Extract the DDK under C 1830_usa_ddk Run C 1830_usa_ddk x86 KitSetup exe This will install WinDDK 3790 1830 under C WINDDK 3790 1830 d Intel R BLDK Development Application version 2 0 1 Note Download from http edc intel com Software Intel Boot Loader Development Kit Double click on the exe file to install B Linux Environment Timesys Fedora Remix 14 a GCC Tool Chain version 4 5 1 20100924 Note Type yum groupinstall development tools in Terminal with root user b Intel ACPI Source Language iASL Compiler version 20100528 Note Type yum install iasl libuuid devel in Terminal with root user c Intel R BLDK Development Application version 2 0 0 Note Download from http edc intel com Software Intel Boot Loader Development Kit Run the installation script as follows to install chmod u x install sh install sh Refer to the Getting Started Guide and the User s Guide for further details Intel UEFI Development Kit Debugger Tool can be downloaded at http www intel com technology efi sw debug htm A Windows Environment a Double click the CB EDKII PostGold 2 3 6 8 exe file and then type in the destination directory b Open Intel R BLDK 2 0 1 Development Application tool c Crea
8. rs text box enter debugbuild Click Save e Under the Build menu you will see Build Build Debug Rebuild Clean and Clean All options To generate a release build click Build To generate a debug build click Build Debug Click Clean to remove previous builds Click Rebuild to clean and generate a release build f After a successful build CROWNBAY FD is the filename of flash image which is located under the build directory Note If build target or feature configuration has been changed a clean build is required Perform Clean or Clean All in Build menu before generating a release debug build manually removing the build folder in source tree is not considered a clean operation Refer to the Getting Started Guide and the User s Guide for further details Note Review the size of the CrownBay SPI Part 2MB OxOO000000 0x01 FFFFF For that you have to adjust the starting address of the flash image Debug image Address Hex 0x0000000 0x01 FFFFF Release image Address Hex 0x0100000 Ox01FFFFF Only UEFI aware target operating systems will boot using this version of BLDK This means that operating systems and boot loaders that require BIOS INT calls will not boot To boot with this version of BLDK a modified version of elilo or grub2 will be required for either of the two supported operating systems MeeGo 1 2 and Timesys Fedora Remi
9. te a new project Refer to section 4 1 in the Getting Started Guide d In the Development Application add a debug build to the build options File gt Preferences gt Build Tools Add a New Item and name it Build amp Debug In the Application text box enter nmake In the Parameters text box enter debugbuild Click Save e Under the Build menu you will see Build Build Debug Rebuild Clean and Clean All options To generate a release build click Build To generate a debug build click Build Debug Click Clean to remove previous builds Click Rebuild to clean and generate a release build f After a successful build CROWNBAY FD is the filename of flash image which is located under the build directory B Linux Environment Timesys Fedora Remix 14 a Copy the CrownBay release package to a workspace and extract the release package at the worskspace by command tar xzvf CB EDKII PostGold 2 3 6 8 tar gz b Use either S bldk or S opt intel bldk bin bldk command to open the Intel R BLDK 2 0 0 Development Application tool c Create a new project Refer to section 4 1 in the Getting Started Guide d In the Development Application add a debug build to the build options File gt Preferences gt Build Tools Add a New Item and name it Build amp Debug In the Application text box enter make In the Paramete
10. x 14 to boot For detailed instructions on making the required modifications and on getting supported operating systems to boot refer to the white paper titled Setting up OS environments using EDK II based Intel R BLDK available from EDC at the link below Booting MeeGo 1 2 and Timesys Fedora Remix 14 on the following media have been validated SATA hard drive SATA solid state drive USB drive SD card Link to download Timesys Fedora Remix 14 https linuxlink timesys com intel linux MeeGo 1 2 https meego com downloads White paper Setting up OS environments using EDK II based Intel R BLDK http www intel com p en_US embedded hwsw software bldk download Only UEFI aware operating systems will boot using this version of BLDK Refer to Section 8 When release package is extracted to a folder the folder name is restricted to contain characters a zA ZO 9_ only Build failure will occur if other characters are used Tool for Source Level Debug is not supported for Linux build Support only EFI Shell 2 0 compatible application EFI application that consumes old Shell interfaces won t be supported by EFI Shell 2 0 Workaround Launch EFI Shell 1 0 image efi on top of Shell 2 0 environment TPM MOR and PP features are not enabled for certain platforms with SPI flash parts SIO UART is needed to be used as console for OS boot if respective OS doesn t support IOH UART
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