Hi,
I would like to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 with coreboot to work on one of the following ideas:
- Enable coreboot + Tianocore over an ARM board: The Ideas page mentions something similar [1], but I think the hardware details are to be finalized. I worked on adding BeagleBone Black support to Tianocore during GSoC-2014 with Linaro, and so have some experience with JTAG, ARM bringup and bootloaders. Which mainboard would be the intended target? I have a HiKey board (HiSilicon Kirin 6220 Cortex-A53 ARM64) [2] which could be used - I'm checking if coreboot already supports a similar SoC to base the port on.
- Eliminate Video BIOS requirement for AMD/ATI graphics init: I understand this would involve dumping AtomBIOS ROM and performing those initializations under coreboot. I came across atomdis [3] and am looking for a Video BIOS ROM I could try disassembling. I need some input on how I could go about the implementation of this idea - what hardware would be suitable / what the boot flow would be. Although I haven't worked with the Linux graphics stack yet, I would like to get my hands dirty. I am currently looking through the resources at [4].
I recently tried running coreboot + SeaBIOS + SYSLINUX under QEMU (as suggested on the Easy tasks page [5]), and it seems to work alright - but is it possible to find a SYSLINUX ELF image so I can eliminate SeaBIOS?
I would be glad to have your suggestions on how I could get started.
[1] http://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas#coreboot_ARM_SoC.27s_mainboard_port [2] https://www.96boards.org/products/hikey/ [3] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_atombios_dumper&a... [4] http://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas#Native_graphics_init [5] http://www.coreboot.org/Easy_projects#Add.2Ftest_new_supported_payloads
Thanks, Varad