[coreboot] Re: Coreboot Self-Flashing Through Payload?

2019-02-15 Thread ron minnich
I agree with patrick :-) On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:38 PM Patrick Georgi wrote: > > It's also possible to make Linux (with included ramdisk) into a > payload, so maybe that could be a middle ground: It's still usable by > all payloads that can execute payloads, it's still Linux + userland in > a

[coreboot] Re: Coreboot Self-Flashing Through Payload?

2019-02-15 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
It's also possible to make Linux (with included ramdisk) into a payload, so maybe that could be a middle ground: It's still usable by all payloads that can execute payloads, it's still Linux + userland in a more or less normal configuration. It has some overhead, but OTOH brings the peace of mind

[coreboot] Re: Coreboot Self-Flashing Through Payload?

2019-02-15 Thread Matt B
Makes sense. That was one thing that gave me a bit of a gut feeling to do it in a small linux install than to try to integrate more tightly with the firmware. The linux utility is what everyone uses and should be more reliable. I've been recently burned by that issue too, on proprietary firmware

[coreboot] Re: [x86] Support for SIS 651 (Northbridge) + SIS 962 (Southbridge) ?

2019-02-15 Thread David Hendricks
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:19 AM Frederic Dumas wrote: > > > Thank you, your answer makes the case to be simply closed. > Don't give up that quickly :-) It's an old chipset and I you may just need to checkout coreboot-v1 (aka LinuxBIOS). SiS 635/735/950 were some of the first chipsets with

[coreboot] Re: [x86] Support for SIS 651 (Northbridge) + SIS 962 (Southbridge) ?

2019-02-15 Thread Frederic Dumas
Thank you, your answer makes the case to be simply closed. Not seeing any SiS chipsets on https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html or in src/northbrige or src/southbridge, so unless those are 100% compatible with one of the others listed I expect you'd be in for a difficult time. I

[coreboot] Re: Refactor tianocore payload

2019-02-15 Thread Sumo
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