Hello,
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 22:20 Taiidan@gmx.com <Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 11/29/2018 09:02 AM, Arthur Heymans wrote:
Hi
It has been a few years since coreboot (or flashrom) applied for Google Summer Of Code. In 2019 the applications for organizations open on january 2019 and student applications on March 25.
I think it would be great if the coreboot project could apply in 2019, as doing so has been very valuable for the project in the past.
I don't really know the full set of requirements and procedures, but I think it could be worthwhile to start thinking about project ideas.
A few ideas were already suggested on IRC on freenode #coreboot:
- 64bit x86 ramstage (hard)
- documented microcode update methods and write a tool that generates a
webpage which microcodes are included in coreboot (easy)
- nvidea optimus support (medium)
- QEMU power9 support / initial openpower support (hard I guess?)
IMO not worth it since TALOS 2/Blackbird already have owner controlled open source firmware directly from the factory so do various other OpenPOWER machines.
Do you refer to only the last point (qemu POWER9) or the whole quoted text? Timothy Pearson expressed interest in getting coreboot on POWER9, and gave a few reasons: - Speed: coreboot will be faster - DDR4: coreboot devs can see how DDR4 bringup is done - coreboot can be in some other device than just old stuff / chromedevices.
Best regards,
Angel Pons