Re: [coreboot] Source code for "Intel Firmware"

[Nico Huber]

On 10/12/18 6:09 PM, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.10.2018, 11:01 +0000 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> > We do however know what consequences said (firmware) architecture
> > have
> > for coreboot, both the good and the bad.
>
> What's the good?

I can think of one: compatibility.

On x86 for instance, coreboot is used to have the same reset vector and
partially the same bootblock for every platform. The hardware isn't the
same, though, and it (probably) can't run in the same way any more. It's
some ROM code (maybe sometimes from flash too?) that actually prepares
what is necessary so we can keep the same software model in coreboot.

Nico