Hi Varad, Welcome! It is great to hear that you are interested in coreboot GSoC.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:44 AM Varad Gautam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 with coreboot to > work on one of the following ideas: > > - Enable coreboot + Tianocore over an ARM board: The Ideas page mentions > something similar [1], but I think the hardware details are to be > finalized. I > worked on adding BeagleBone Black support to Tianocore during GSoC-2014 > with > Linaro, and so have some experience with JTAG, ARM bringup and bootloaders. > Which mainboard would be the intended target? I have a HiKey board > (HiSilicon > Kirin 6220 Cortex-A53 ARM64) [2] which could be used - I'm checking if > coreboot already supports a similar SoC to base the port on. > There are a number of ARM SOCs in development that are being merged from chromium.org (chromebook). Take a look at src/soc and src/arch. This is a pretty big task, but might be a good match if you have done some similar work in past projects. > > - Eliminate Video BIOS requirement for AMD/ATI graphics init: I understand > this would involve dumping AtomBIOS ROM and performing those > initializations > under coreboot. I came across atomdis [3] and am looking for a Video BIOS > ROM > I could try disassembling. I need some input on how I could go about the > implementation of this idea - what hardware would be suitable / what the > boot > flow would be. Although I haven't worked with the Linux graphics stack > yet, I > would like to get my hands dirty. I am currently looking through the > resources > at [4]. > You might look at Gizmo2. > > I recently tried running coreboot + SeaBIOS + SYSLINUX under QEMU (as > suggested on the Easy tasks page [5]), and it seems to work alright - but > is > it possible to find a SYSLINUX ELF image so I can eliminate SeaBIOS? > I don't know if anyone has made a SYSLINUX elf. Any small kernelvmlinuz and initrd could be used. http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial#Building_a_Linux_kernel_payload > > I would be glad to have your suggestions on how I could get started. > > You can join #coreboot on IR and , start looking at the patches on Gerrit and get a feel for what is being developed. Again, Welcome! Marc > [1] http://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas#coreboot_ARM_ > SoC.27s_mainboard_port > [2] https://www.96boards.org/products/hikey/ > [3] > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_ > atombios_dumper&num=1 > [4] http://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas#Native_graphics_init > [5] http://www.coreboot.org/Easy_projects#Add.2Ftest_new_ > supported_payloads > > Thanks, > Varad > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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