Hi,

It seems the Tianocore Coreboot payload
(CorebootPayloadPkg/CorebootModulePkg) will be replaced in future by
UefiPayloadPkg...
See also:
https://firmwaresecurity.com/2018/09/14/uefipayloadpkg-uefi-payload-project-supports-coreboot-and-slim-bootloader/
The preliminary implementation is available in:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/UEFIPayload

Kind regards,
Sumo

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:09 PM Patrick Georgi via coreboot <
coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote:

> Also, there may be users interested in the "whole" UEFI experience,
> with secure boot validating binaries loaded from a https server via
> their infiniband controllers and IPoIB implemented by on-PCIe firmware
> delivered as EBC bytecode. I don't see yabits providing support for
> that.
>
>
> Patrick
>
> Am Do., 14. Feb. 2019 um 23:05 Uhr schrieb Matt DeVillier
> <matt.devill...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:11 PM Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 14.02.19 09:28, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 10:15 +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
> >> >> On 13.02.19 09:45, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> >> >>> With UEFI the defactor standard it seems reasonable to improve the
> >> >>> tianocore payload integration.
> >> >>
> >> >> I agree that UEFI may seem ubiquitous (we've slept too long, never
> pro-
> >> >> vided an alternative), but why should we focus on tianocore?
> >> >>
> >> >> Tianocore isn't the only UEFI implementation. There is Yabits and,
> IIRC,
> >> >> somebody was working on a Boot-Services implementation for Linux
> (don't
> >> >> know the state of it, though). So why not put the effort into
> something
> >> >> that benefits our infrastructure more? Yabits uses libpayload, afaik.
> >> >> Would be nice to have more payloads upstream that use it. And if
> core-
> >> >> boot developers would put as much effort into Yabits as they put into
> >> >> merely getting tiano to compile, it would likely flourish much
> >> >> better.
> >> >>
> >> > There's yabits as payload integration in coreboot already.
> >> >
> >> > Yabits didn't receive updates in the last few month. Looking at the
> >> > code base it's more a Proof-of-Concept.
> >>
> >> I fear it'll stay this way if everybody interested in UEFI runs after
> >> Tianocore. Open-source development isn't about waiting for somebody
> >> else to do the job. At least, it wasn't always.
> >
> >
> > I think these are completely separate issues however: one being
> providing a
> > working Tianocore implementation to users who need a payload with EFI
> > boot support, and the other being the best place to focus development
> effort.
> >
> > I've gone ahead and created a new 'coreboot' branch based on my fbgop
> branch,
> > with a little bit of cleanup. We can offer that as a working (or even
> default) option,
> > and then figure out the best path forward. But it's pretty minimal
> effort to offer a
> > better working default option
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Nico
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