Since arm based netbook/pads are getting more popular, arm system are getting more complicated, lots of them now should deal with pci/pcie devices, much of them also should support sas/sata/scsi based disks. Coreboot has a great advantage about dealing with this.
Best wishes Wang Qing Pei Phone: 86+018930528086 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:21 AM, bari <b...@onelabs.com> wrote: > J T Dsouza wrote: > >> I want to help >> finish the idea that porting coreboot to Marvell ARM SOC's with PCIe. >> Can someone give me some suggestions? >> >> >> Marvell SOCs are supported in uBoot. As are most other ARM devices >> capable of running an OS like linux, uclinux. >> > > Yes, some of us are well aware of uboot and what it supports. Many of the > coreboot developers have also been working with uboot for >10 years. The > point of coreboot on ARM was mainly for ARM soc's featuring PCI or PCIe > since coreboot supports PCI so well. If you look into the Qi bootloader > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi you might find some other reasons for > working on alternatives for ARM init firmware. > > -Bari > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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