Embedded Firmware Solutions : : Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things.

• Author: Zimmer, Vincent.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sun, Jiming.; Jones, Marc.; Reinauer, Stefan.
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, CA : : Apress L. P.,, 2015.; ©2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents at a Glance
• Contents
• About the Authors
• About the Technical Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• What Is Embedded Firmware?
• Where Is Firmware?
• What Do Firmware Engineers Do?
• Firmware Preparation for New Hardware
• The Mystery of Bits
• Programming Guides
• The Intel® Firmware Support Package
• The Uniqueness of Embedded Firmware
• The Choice of Firmware Stacks
• Welcome to the Era of the Internet of Things
• Technical Coverage in This Book
• The Future of Firmware
• Chapter 2: Firmware Stacks for Embedded Systems
• Is a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Possible?
• Microkernel
• Real-Time Operating S ystem (RTOS)
• Legacy BIOS
• Implementations of the UEFI Framework
• Open Source Firmware Stacks
• Proprietary Firmware Stacks
• Make o r Buy
• The Advantages of Outsourcing
• The Disadvantages of Outsourcing
• In-House Development
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Intel® Firmware Support Package (Intel® FSP)
• The Intel FSP Philosophy
• What Is in Intel FSP?
• Intel FSP Binary Format
• Sample Boot Flow
• Locating the Entries of Intel FSP
• The Hard Way to Find Intel FSP APIs: Use Data Structure
• The Easy Way to Find FSP APIs: Use Hard-Coded Constants
• Programming Interface: The APIs of Intel FSP
• TempRamInit
• FspInitEntry
• NotifyPhase
• Intel FSP Output
• API Execution Status
• Temporary Memory Data HOB
• Non-Volatile Storage HOB
• Sample Code for Parsing HOBs
• Customization of Intel FSP
• Downloading Intel FSP
• Microcode Patches
• Relocating Intel FSP
• Integration and Build
• The Future of Intel FSP
• What Is Coming in the Following Chapters
• Chapter 4: Building coreboot with Intel FSP
• The Introduction of coreboot
• The Philosophy of coreboot
• A Brief History
• v1: 1999-2000
• v2: 2000-2005
• v2+: 2005-2008.
• v3: 2006-2008
• 2008 LinuxBIOS Renamed "coreboot"
• v4: 2009-2012
• v4+: 2012-2014
• Further Reading
• Prerequisites for Working with coreboot
• Community Organization
• Git and Gerrit
• Git Commit Messages
• coreboot Sign-off Procedure
• Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
• Adding Your Sign-off
• Working with the coreboot Community
• coreboot Do's
• coreboot Don'ts
• Nonsource Binaries in coreboot
• A Hands-on Example: Building coreboot for the MinnowBoard MAX Mainboard
• Environment
• Hardware: MinnowBoard MAX
• MinnowBoard MAX Platform Details
• Development Directory
• Downloading Intel FSP
• Installing Intel FSP
• Downloading the coreboot Source
• coreboot Toolchain
• coreboot Commit Hooks
• Creating a coreboot Development Branch
• Building the Mainboard
• On the Menuconfig Menu
• On the Chipset Menu
• On the Devices Menu
• Build
• Summary of Commands
• Flashing the ROM
• Preparing the Flash Programmer
• Flashing the ROM Image
• coreboot Internals
• Boot Stages
• Additional Files
• CBFS
• An Example of CBFS
• CBFS Size
• Special Binaries
• Boot Flow Using Intel FSP
• Reset Vector and Bootblock
• romstage
• ramstage
• Payload
• coreboot Source
• coreboot Device Tree
• Chips and Devices
• Device Tree Variables
• A Device Tree Example
• Chip Operations
• Device Operations
• coreboot Hardwaremain State Machine
• State Machine States
• State Machine Callbacks
• Mainboard
• The Chipset Driver
• Chipset FSP UPD Options
• The FSP Driver
• Kconfig
• xcompile
• Payloads
• SeaBIOS
• GRUB 2
• FILO
• iPXE
• TianoCore
• Depthcharge
• U- Boot
• Memtest86+
• libpayload
• coreboot Troubleshooting and Debugging
• Postcodes
• Serial Debug
• EHCI USB Debug
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Chrome book Firmware Internals
• About Chrome book and Chrome OS
• Chrome OS Firmware Overview.
• Chrome OS Security Philosophy
• Chrome OS Security Guiding Principles
• Power wash
• Chrome OS Boot Modes
• Verified (Normal) Mode
• Recovery Mode
• Developer Mode
• Chrome OS Coreboot
• x86
• ARM
• Depth charge Payload
• libpayload
• Verified Boot
• Verified Boot and Kernel Security
• Chrome OS Firmware Boot Log
• Boot Times Log
• Chrome OS Firmware Event Log
• Google SMI Linux Kernel Driver
• Chrome OS Extensions to the Firmware Image
• FMAP
• BOOT_STUB FMAP Section
• Chrome OS Firmware RW FMAP Sections
• An fmap.dts (RW_SECTION_A) Example
• Google Binary Block (GBB)
• GBB: HWID v3
• GBB: Firmware Bitmaps
• GBB: Firmware Keys
• GBB: Boot Flags
• Vital Product Data ( VPD)
• Firmware TPM Usage
• Chrome OS Firmware Update
• Chrome OS Utilities
• flashrom
• gbb_utility
• GBB Flags Utility Script: set_gbb_flags.sh
• crossystem
• mosys
• Google Embedded Controller
• Power Sequencing
• Battery Charging
• Thermal Management
• Keyboard Controller
• Other Peripheral Controls
• Chrome EC Software Sync
• Software Sync Steps
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Intel FSP and UEFI Integration
• Introduction to EFI
• Introduction to FSP
• Introduction to EDK II
• Summary
• FSP Components
• FSP Wrapper Boot Flow
• Generic FSP Wrapper Boot Flow
• Normal Boot
• Boot Flow
• Memory Layout for a Normal Boot Flow
• FSP Normal Boot Data Structure
• S3 Boot
• Boot Flow
• S3 Memory Layout
• S3 NV Data Passing
• Capsule Flash Update
• Boot Flow
• Capsule Update Memory Layout
• Recovery Boot Flow
• FSP Recovery Memory Layout
• coreboot Payload Based upon EDK II
• Building Minnow and MinnowMax with FSP
• Future of the Intel FSP
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7: Building Firmware for Quark Processors
• Overview of UEFI and PI
• History of Implementations and Specifications
• Introduction to EDK II Building Blocks.
• PKG: Packaging
• MdePkg
• MdeModulePkg
• IntelFrameworkPkg
• IntelFrameworkModulePkg
• Packages
• PCD: Platform Configuration Database
• Syntax
• DEC: Platform Declaration File
• Syntax
• DSC: Platform Description File
• FDF: Flash Description File
• Syntax
• Build: The EDK II Build Command
• INF: INF File
• More Information
• Introduction to the EDK II Subset
• Introduction to Quark
• ROM Flash Image Size Optimization
• Fixed Resource
• DRAM/SMRAM
• Remove Features
• Reduce Features
• Compiler Options
• Build Options
• Results of the TinyQuark Optimization
• RAM Footprint Optimization
• Optimization
• Result of Memory Usage Optimization
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8: Putting It All Together
• RTOS and Intel FSP
• Intel FSP and Open Source Philosophy
• Customization and Production of Intel FSP
• It Is a Community Effort After All
• Appendix A: Sample Boot Setting File (BSF)
• Index.