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<h1>Intel&reg; x86 coreboot/FSP Development Process</h1>
<p>
  The x86 development process for coreboot is broken into the following components:
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<ul>
  <li>coreboot <a target="_blank" href="SoC/soc.html">SoC</a> development</li>
  <li>coreboot <a target="_blank" href="Board/board.html">mainboard</a> development</li>
  <li><a target="_blank" href="fsp1_1.html">FSP 1.1</a> integration</li>
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<p>
  The development process has two main phases:
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  <li>Minimal coreboot; This phase is single threaded</li>
  <li>Adding coreboot features</li>
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<h2>Minimal coreboot</h2>
<p>
  The combined steps below describe how to bring up a minimal coreboot for a
  system-on-a-chip (SoC) and a development board:
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    <td>The initial coreboot steps are single threaded!
      The initial minimal FSP development is also single threaded.
      Progress can speed up by adding more developers after the minimal coreboot/FSP
      implementation reaches the payload.
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  <li>Get the necessary tools:
    <ul>
      <li>Linux: Use your package manager to install m4 bison flex and the libcurses development
        package.
        <ul>
          <li>Ubuntu or other Linux distribution that use apt, run:
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install m4 bison flex libncurses5-dev
</code></pre>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Build the cross tools for i386:
    <ul>
      <li>Linux:
<pre><code>make crossgcc-i386</code></pre>
        To use multiple processors for the toolchain build (which takes a long time), use:
<pre><code>make crossgcc-i386 CPUS=N</code></pre>
        where N is the number of cores to use for the build.
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    </ul>
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  <li>Get something to build:
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      <li><a target="_blank" href="fsp1_1.html#RequiredFiles">FSP 1.1</a> required files</li>
      <li><a target="_blank" href="SoC/soc.html#RequiredFiles">SoC</a> required files</li>
      <li><a target="_blank" href="Board/board.html#RequiredFiles">Board</a> required files</li>
    </ol>
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  <li>Get result to start <a target="_blank" href="SoC/soc.html#Descriptor">booting</a></li>
  <li><a target="_blank" href="SoC/soc.html#EarlyDebug">Early Debug</a></li>
  <li>Implement and debug the <a target="_blank" href="SoC/soc.html#Bootblock">bootblock</a> code</li>
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<p>Modified: 31 January 2016</p>
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