Re: [coreboot] Mail from a student who wants to apply for coreboot GSoC project

[J T Dsouza]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:51 AM, bari  wrote:
> J T Dsouza wrote:
> > I want to help
> >    finish the idea that porting coreboot to Marvell ARM SOC's with PCIe.
> >    Can someone give me some suggestions?
> >
> > Marvell SOCs are supported in uBoot.  As are most other ARM devices
> > capable of running an OS like linux, uclinux.
>
> Yes, some of us are well aware of uboot and what it supports. Many of the
> coreboot developers have also been working with uboot for >10 years. The
> point of coreboot on ARM was mainly for ARM soc's featuring PCI or PCIe
> since coreboot supports PCI so well. If you look into the Qi bootloader
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi you might find some other reasons for
> working on alternatives for ARM init firmware.

Interesting.