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European coreboot conference 2017
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (coreboot conference) Jan. 28, 2017

Jan. 28, 2017

Hello everyone, we are currently planning to host a coreboot conference in Germany with 2 days of talks and an additional 2 days of hacking. The date will probably either be October 19-22 or October 26-29, i.e. directly before or after Embedded Linux Conference Europe and LinuxCon Europe. Ticket prices haven't been decided yet and depend on the location and venue availability. The location will be either in Bonn or Bochum. Both Bochum and Bonn offer a variety of interesting activities for conference participants. Bochum is reachable by public transport from Frankfurt Airport within 120 minutes, from Dusseldorf Airport within 40 minutes and from Cologne Airport within 80 minutes. Bonn is reachable by public transport from Frankfurt Airport within 70 minutes, from Dusseldorf Airport within 70 minutes and from Cologne Airport within 30 minutes. YOUR ACTION NEEDED! Please fill out the application and subscribe to the newsletter if you are planning to join us! https://www.coreboot.org/events/ecc2017 Sincerely, -- Hailfinger, Carl-Daniel _________________________________________ Section CK 14 - Cyber Security in Operating Systems and Applications Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Godesberger Allee 185-189 53175 Bonn, Germany phone: +49 (0)228 9582-5939 fax: +49 (0)228 9582-5400 e-mail: coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de internet: www.bsi.bund.de

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SHORT NOTICE: coreboot.berlin next weekend, Oct. 7-9
by Peter Stuge Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Hello all, I'm happy to *finally* have the information and registration page online: https://coreboot.berlin/ Yes, it's very late, but I hope that we will still be a good number of people meeting up next weekend. Quick feedback helps me make sure that everyone will get food. If you are interested in attending, but unable to register at the Community Registration Fee cost then please get in touch with me, so that we can try to work something out. Thank you very much, and hope to see you in Berlin on the 7:th! //Peter

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Re: [coreboot-announce] [coreboot] Announcing coreboot 4.2
by ron minnich Oct. 30, 2015

Oct. 30, 2015

Nice job all. Patrick, I'm looking forward t the next release detailing how many files and lines were removed :-) include, oh sad, the 440lx :-) ron On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi(a)google.com> wrote: > (Halloween 2015 release - just as scary as that sounds) > > Dear coreboot community, > > today marks the release of coreboot 4.2, the second release on our > time based release schedule. > Since 4.1 there were 936 commits by 90 authors, increasing the code > base by approximately 17000 lines of code. We saw 35 new contributors > - welcome to coreboot! More than 34 developers were active as > reviewers in that period. > Thanks go to all contributors who helped shape this release. > > As with 4.1, the release tarballs are available at > http://www.coreboot.org/releases/. There's also a 4.2 tag and branch > in the git repository. > > This marks the first release that features a changelog comparing it to > the previous release. There was some limited testing to make sure that > the code is usable, and it boots on some devices. A structured test > plan will only become part of the release procedure of future > versions. > I'm grateful to Martin for assembling this release's changelog. > > This is also the first release that will be followed by the removal of > old, unused code. There will be a policy on how to announce > deprecation and removal of mainboard and chipset code for future > releases. > > Regards, > Patrick > > Log of commit d5e6618a4f076610e683b174c4dd5108d960c785 to > commit 439a527014fa0cb3e4ef60ba59e5c57c737b4444 > > Changes between 4.1 and 4.2 > --------------------------- > Build system: > - Store a minimized coreboot config file in cbfs instead of the full config > - Store the payload config and revision in CBFS when that info is available > - Add -compression option for cbfs-files-y. Valid entries are now -file, > -type, -align, and -compression > - Change Microcode inclusion method from building .h files to pre-built > binaries > - Update Builder tests for each commit to test utilities and run lint tools > - Many other small makefile and build changes and fixes > - Remove expert mode as a Kconfig option > > Utilities: > - Many fixes and updates to many utilities (158 total commits) > - ifdtool: Update for skylake, handle region masks correctly > - crossgcc: Update to gcc 5.2.0 > - kconfig: Add strict mode to fail on kconfig errors and warnings > - vgabios: Significant fixes to remove issues in linking into coreboot code > - Add script to parse MAINTAINERS file > - Add Kconfig lint tool > - Create a common library to share coreboot routines with utilities > - Significant changes and cleanup to cbfstool (81 commits). Major changes: > - Update cbfstool to change the internal location of FSP binaries when > adding > them > - Decompress stage files on extraction and turn them into ELF binaries > - Header sizes are now variable, containing extended attributes > - Add compression tags to all cbfs headers so all cbfs files can be > compressed > - Add and align CBFS components in one pass instead of two > - Add XIP support for X86 to relocate the romstage when it's added > - Removed locate command as it's no longer needed > - Add bootblock and cbfs_header file types so the master header knows about > them > - Prefer FMAP data to CBFS master header if FMAP data exists > - Add hashes to cbfs file metadata for verification of images > > Payloads: > - SeaBIOS: update stable release from 1.7.5 to 1.8.2 > - Libpayload had some significant changes (61 commits). Major changes: > - Add support for fmap tables > - Add support for SuperSpeed (3.0) USB hubs > - Updates and bugfixes for DesignWare OTG controller (DWC2) > - Add video_printf to print text with specified foreground & background > colors > - Updates to match changes to cbfs/cbfstool > - Add cbgfx, a library to show graphics and text on a display > - Read cbfs offset and size from sysinfo when available > > Vendorcode: > - fsp_baytrail: Support Baytrail FSP Gold 4 release > - AMD binary PI: add support for fan control > - Work to get AMD AGESA to compile correctly as 64-bit code > - Add standalone (XIP) verstage support for x86 to verify romstage > > Mainboards: > - New Mainboards: > - apple/macbookair4_2 - Sandy/Ivy Bridge with Panther / Cougar point > chipset > - asus/kgpe-d16 - AMD Family 10, SB700/SR5650 platform > - emulation/spike-riscv - RISCV virtualized platform > - google/chell - Intel Skylake chrome platform > - google/cyan - Intel Braswell chrome platform > - google/glados - Intel Skylake chrome platform > - google/lars - Intel Skylake chrome platform > - intel/kunimitsu - Intel Skylake chrome platform > - intel/sklrvp - Intel Skylake reference platform > - intel/strago - Intel Braswell chrome platform > - Cleanups of many mainboards - several patches each for: > - amd/bettong > - getac/p470 > - google/auron, google/smaug and google/veyron_rialto > - pcengines/apu1 > - siemens/mc_tcu3 > - Combine the google/veyron_(jerry, mighty, minnie, pinkie, shark & > speedy) > mainboards into the single google/veyron mainboard directory > > Console: > - Add EM100 'hyper term' spi console support in ramstage & smm > - Add console support for verstage > > ARM: > - armv7: use asm coded memory operations for 32/16 bit read/write > - Many cleanups to the nvidia tegra chips (40 patches) > > RISC-V: > - Add trap handling > - Add virtual Memory setup > > X86: > - Remove and re-add Rangeley and Ivy Bridge / panther point FSP platforms > - Update microcode update parser to use stock AMD microcode blobs from CBFS > - ACPI: Align FACS to 64 byte boundary. Fixes FWTS error > - AMD/SB700: Init devices in early boot, restore power state after power > failure. Add IDE/SATA asl code > - Add initial support for AMD Socket G34 processors > - Add tick frequency to timestamp table to calculate boot times more > accurately > - Unify X86 romstage / ramstage linking to match other platforms > - Start preparing X86 bootblock for non-memory-mapped BIOS media > - cpu/amd/car: Add Suspend to RAM (S3) support > - Native VGA init fixes on several platforms > - Significant updates to FSP 1.1 code for cleanup and cbfstool changes > - SMMhandler: on i945..nehalem, crash if LAPIC overlaps with ASEG to > prevent > the memory sinkhole smm hack > Drivers: > - Add native text mode support for the Aspeed AST2050 > - w83795: Add support for for fan control and voltage monitoring > - Intel GMA ACPI consolidation and improvements > - Set up the 8254 timer before running option ROMs > - Resource allocator: Page align memory mapped PCI resources > > Lib: > - Derive fmap name from offset/size > - Several edid fixes > - Updates to cbfs matching changes in cbfstool > > Submodules: > ----------- > 3rdparty/blobs: > Total commits: 16 > Log of commit 61d663e39bc96530900c3232ccea7365ab9dad0b to > commit aab093f0824b6d26b57a1ce220ba0d577e37ad49 > - AMD Merlin Falcon: Update to CarrizoPI 1.1.0.0 (Binary PI 1.4) > - AMD Steppe Eagle: Update to MullinsPI 1.0.0.A (Binary PI 1.1) > - Update microcode to binary blobs. Remove old .h microcode files > > 3rdparty/arm-trusted-firmware: > - No Changes > > 3rdparty/vboot: > Total commits: 41 > Log of commit fbf631c845c08299f0bcbae3f311c5807d34c0d6 to > commit d6723ed12b429834c2627c009aab58f0db20ce73 > - Update the code to determine the write protect line gpio value > - Several updates to futility and image_signing scripts > - Update crossystem to accommodate Android mosys location > - Support reboot requested by secdata > - Add NV flag to default boot legacy OS > > util/nvidia/cbootimage: > - No Changes > > -- > Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg > Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: > Hamburg > Geschäftsführer: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot(a)coreboot.org > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

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coreboot conference 2015 invitation
by coreboot conference Sept. 5, 2015

Sept. 5, 2015

Dear vendors, developers, users and interested parties, on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Germany I would like to invite you to the coreboot conference and developer meeting on October 9-11 2015 in Bonn, Germany. This conference and developer meeting is geared towards manufacturers of hardware (processors, chipsets, mainboards and servers/ laptops/ tablets/ desktops/ appliances) as well as developers of firmware with an interest in coreboot and the possibilities it offers as well as (potential) coreboot users. Both professionals and hobbyists are invited. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany will host the conference in Bonn, Germany. As the national cyber security authority, the goal of the BSI is to promote IT security in Germany. For this reason, the BSI has funded coreboot development in the past for security reasons. The date of the coreboot conference is Friday October 9 to Sunday October 11, 2015. This is scheduled directly after Embedded Linux Conference Europe to make travel arrangements easier for people attending both events. If your main interest is forging business relationships and/or strategic coordination and you want to skip the technical workshops, Friday (and possibly Saturday) will be the outreach day of talks, presentations and discussions. If your main interest is doing development, you can use the separate developer room next to the during all three days of the conference. Call for presentations: We are looking for interesting talks/presentations about coreboot related topics for the first (and possibly second) day of the conference. Please note that those presentations are not intended to be advertisements or company portfolio presentations. Expected duration is between 10 and 45 minutes. Submission: Please send the title, a brief summary, the expected duration and name/organization of the speaker to <coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de> until September 21. We will notify you of acceptance until September 28. If you want us to make sure the slides work fine with the projector at the venue, please submit your final slides in pdf form before Ocober 7. Call for discussion topics and development suggestions: We hope to stimulate discussion and foster new ideas as well as explore ways to improve code, development and deployment. The format for this will be a few minutes (1-5) of presenting your idea/topic followed by discussing it with the audience for approximately 5-20 minutes. While there is no formal deadline for submission, we'd appreciate a submission to <coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de> before October 2 to be able to list the topic on the agenda to allow others to think about the topic in advance. Call for profiles: This is the chance to tell others what you're doing, what you can offer and in what area you'd like to collaborate. If desired, we can attempt to distribute your profile to other conference participants before the conference. Please submit such profiles before September 30 to <coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de> . Call for developers: If you want to do development all day, every day, just come and do it. We have power, networking and some spare hardware (please tell us in advance if you need something on site, we might have it in our lab). Travel information: If you wonder about how to reach Bonn, there are three options available by plane: The closest is Cologne Airport (CGN), 30 minutes by bus to Bonn main station. Next is Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), 1 hour by train to Bonn main station. The airport with most international destinations is Frankfurt Airport (FRA), 1 hour by train to Bonn main station. There’s the option to travel by train as well. Bonn is reachable by high-speed train (ICE), and other high-speed train stations are reasonably close (30 minutes). Conference location: Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn Ahrstrasse 45 53175 Bonn GERMANY Getting there (German only) http://www.stifterverband.info/veranstaltungen/wissenschaftszentrum_bonn/an… An English version of the directions will be available at http://coreboot.org/coreboot_conference_Bonn_2015 Accommodation: Accommodation is not centrally organized, but if desired we can point you to websites listing hotel contact information and/or booking services as well as the local tourist information office. We also have a small allotment of rooms close to the venue reserved for conference participants, just ask us. Spare time activities: If there is enough interest, it might be possible to get a tour of the former top secret bunker of the German Federal Government on Saturday evening. More info at http://regbu.de/Fremdsprachen/GB1.html Besides that, Bonn and Cologne have lots of tourist attractions Food and drinks: More info will be posted to http://coreboot.org/coreboot_conference_Bonn_2015 shortly. Date and time: October 9-11 2015 Friday: 9:00-19:00 Saturday: 9:00-16:00 Sunday: 9:00-19:00 To enable us to estimate the number of attendees (for catering etc.), please notify us ASAP whether you will attend the conference at <coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de>. Thank you! All information is also available at http://coreboot.org/coreboot_conference_Bonn_2015 Sincerely, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger -- Hailfinger, Carl-Daniel _________________________________________ Section C 13 - Operating System and Application Security Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Godesberger Allee 185-189 53175 Bonn, Germany phone: +49 (0)228 9582-5939 fax: +49 (0)228 9582-5400 e-mail: coreboot-conference(a)bsi.bund.de internet: www.bsi.bund.de

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[RFC] coreboot for businesses
by Stefan Reinauer Dec. 18, 2014

Dec. 18, 2014

Dear coreboot community members: Marc, Ron, Patrick, Aaron and I have been discussing for a while about how to make coreboot more accessible for businesses. We would like to found a business organization (a.k.a. a coreboot consortium) that helps commercial players out there to become a part of the coreboot community, share marketing materials, and other efforts to promote the use of coreboot in the market place and be successful with coreboot based solutions. If you work for an organization that is using coreboot, developing coreboot, or is just interested in coreboot, please help us learn about your needs and wishes and fill out the following form: http://goo.gl/glhNh5 If you know someone who might be interested, but is not on this mailing list, please forward this message to them. Best regards, Stefan

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coreboot at LinuxTag and coreboot hackaton, Berlin, May 22-27 2013
by Peter Stuge June 1, 2013

June 1, 2013

Hi all, coreboot will again have a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin, May 22-25, in Hall 7.1c at Messe Berlin AKA "Messegelände unter dem Funkturm". (Translation: Fairground under the radio tower.) After LinuxTag we'll continue with a developer meeting/hackaton, May 26-27, in the rooms of the community ISP IN-Berlin at Lehrter Straße 53, not far from Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the central train station. If you can join us for LinuxTag and/or for the developer meeting please let us know your availability using the Doodle at http://goo.gl/0OO6z If you're interested in helping out at the LinuxTag booth please email me off-list. We have a little bit more space this year, but also many nice things to show off, and the Google guys will be doing a workshop on Friday, May 24, about building a custom coreboot ROM from scratch, and flashing it onto a Chromebook. The developer meeting is free of charge thanks to the generosity of our hosts at IN-Berlin, but please note that space is somewhat limited. If there is overwhelming interest then priority will be given according to general level of contributions in the community -- but don't be shy!! If you would like to join then simply sign up at the Doodle. For visitors who wish to book accomodation near the IN-Berlin location here are a few suggestions in order of proximity: * A&O Hostel and Hotel, Lehrter Str. 12, 700m down the street http://www.aohostels.com/en/berlin/berlin-hauptbahnhof/ * Berliner Stadtmission Christian Jugendgästehaus, Lehrter Str. 66, 950m http://www.jgh-hauptbahnhof.de/ * Motel One, corner of Invalidenstr. and Lehrter Str., 1.2km http://www.motel-one.com/de/hotels/berlin/hotel-berlin-hauptbahnhof/ The central train station is in the opposite direction, ie. Motel One is closest to the station. S-Bahn line S5 toward Spandau departs from Hauptbahnhof track 16, the 7:th stop is Messe Süd where LinuxTag is. NOTE: Several other S-lines depart from track 16, but only S5 Spandau takes you to Messe Süd! Remember to validate (insert into little red machine which timestamps) your ticket if you travel by S-Bahn. The fine is 40 EUR and checks especially on the east-west line are frequent-ish. The developer meeting starts on Sunday morning and formally ends on Monday afternoon but there may also be some informal meetings or perhaps sightseeing excursions on Tuesday. There are grocery stores nearby IN-Berlin, we can use the kitchen if we want to, and they have an assortment of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages as well as sweets for sale at low cost. There is however not much in the way of restaurants nearby so I expect that we will order lunch to be delivered to IN-Berlin but leave in the evening and hit the city for dinner, and possibly tasty beverages. Looking forward to meeting you in Berlin //Peter

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Meeting during 29C3 in Hamburg on 28/12 at 19:30 in CCH lobby
by Peter Stuge Dec. 28, 2012

Dec. 28, 2012

Hi everyone! Several coreboot project participants and followers will be in Hamburg during this year's Chaos Communication Congress, also known as 29C3, so let's go for dinner and a nice chat again, on the evening of December 28th. Let's meet near the CCH entrance as a starting point. There are not really many restaurants just outside the CCH, but downtown Hamburg is only a few hundred meters away from the venue, so I'm sure that we will find something. To repeat a tradition for coreboot in Hamburg we could visit Vapiano, there is one near Axel-Springer-Platz on the other side of Gänsemarkt seen from the CCH, about 1km on foot, but there are also plenty of other choices along the way. If I don't already know that you will be coming along and if you want to make sure that we don't leave the CCH without you by mistake then you can of course drop me an email. Just to be clear there is no reservation, we'll just go ad-hoc to some restaurant. Feel free to come along without sending me anything. Feel free to join us if you are so far only curious about coreboot but have never even used it. I'm looking forward to meeting you in Hamburg - see you there! //Peter

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Visit coreboot at LinuxTag in Berlin, May 23rd - May 26th 2012
by Peter Stuge May 12, 2012

May 12, 2012

It is our pleasure to invite you to the coreboot booth at LinuxTag in Berlin again this year. See http://linuxtag.org/2012/ for details. We are located in hall 7.2b, booth 278, in the corner to the right of the Open Source Arena stage, the same location as the last few years. As usual we will showcase a nice system or two booting coreboot, this time it's all about laptops! We hope to also have some fun surprises for visitors in the booth, but the final confirmation is not in just yet. Stop by and see if we could make our ideas a reality in time! :) Please be aware that if you plan to visit Messe Berlin by car, the usual parking lot by the entrance is not available this year, since the hall right in front of the entrance has been blown up, and the whole area is currently a big construction site. See you at the booth! //Peter, Björn, and Paul

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new coreboot twitter account
by Stefan Tauner July 28, 2011

July 28, 2011

hi there! not so sure this justifies spam, but i have set up a twitter account for coreboot (and flashrom): http://twitter.com/coreboot_org the current plan is to setup a wordpress plugin to push headlines of new blog posts there. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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[ANN] New code repository and development workflow
by Patrick Georgi June 6, 2011

June 6, 2011

Dear coreboot developers, stakeholders, and enthusiasts, I'm glad to be able to announce that we moved the repository infrastructure to git and gerrit, with jenkins as supporting facility. This was done with the goal of improving the development workflow, meaning less overhead for developers when managing the patch queue. This should lead to losing fewer patch submissions. So far we used patchwork[1], but it's more maintenance work than practical given that it requires manual handling of patches that don't match the commit diff, and of patches that went through multiple iterations. While it improved the visibility of patches (and I'm thankful for that), it still posed a higher than necessary barrier to patch review. Gerrit[2] is a code review utility developed by Google which uses the distributed properties of git to provide a seamless path for patches from submission to commit. For this, git[3] is used: Gerrit uses its ability to create and tear down branches as necessary to push every contribution into its own branch. This way it's already "tracked" by the version control system without influencing the master branch. The use of git also plays well into the desire of several coreboot contributors to switch from svn to git. In addition to these changes, we also moved the build bot from our own custom build variant to a more standard Jenkins[4] installation. In addition to building commits after they are integrated on the master branch ("trunk" in SVN terminology), it's also configured to build patch submissions on gerrit as they come in. That way there's automated feedback on a patch before spending time on it. All this means that the coreboot development workflow changes considerably: 1. New SCM You will need git, so install it from your usual software distribution channels. For patch submission a gerrit account is necessary. You can register it on http://review.coreboot.org. With the account you can also review patches. The ability to merge patches to mainline will be granted by admins. ssh public keys are used for authentication. You can register them with gerrit in your user preferences at http://review.coreboot.org/#settings when logged in. Gerrit requires that the commit message contains Change-Id: lines. "make gitconfig" inside a coreboot checkout installs a commit message handler which takes care of this. The committer address must match an email address that is registered with your gerrit acccount. Again these can be configured in gerrit user preferences. Fetching anonymously: git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot Fetching authenticated: git clone ssh://<username>@review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot 2. New patch submission process Develop "as usual" in git, and commit freely. When you're ready to submit patches, push them with git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master This will tell gerrit which branch your commits are for (master) and it will create internal branches for each commit you pushed, making them separate changesets. If you push a number of commits at once, they're properly linked as "dependencies", so people (and tools like gerrit and jenkins) are aware about prerequisites. For automating some aspects of patch submission, see the last paragraph of http://review.coreboot.org/Documentation/user-upload.html#push_create We will also document more of making live easier at http://www.coreboot.org/Git as best practices are established. 3. New patch review process The main interface to do patch reviews is the gerrit webapp at http://review.coreboot.org. For those who tend to avoid web apps, there's the option of controlling gerrit via ssh. Detailed information on that will be posted at http://www.coreboot.org/Git. There's no real workflow defined around this interface yet because it seems to be an unpopular choice as _User_ Interface. This means, we'll have to develop our own. 4. Mail notification Mail notification to the mailing list is implemented from scratch. Right now it only reports on new patch submissions and on patches merged into the master branch. More events might/will follow in future, and we will certainly tweak the ad-hoc messages and formatting some more. Questions? Comments? Praise? Flames? Patrick [1] http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork [2] http://gerrit.googlecode.com [3] http://git-scm.com/ [4] http://jenkins-ci.org/

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