Hi, David, When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios porting and fixing bug. There were four mainboards P5KPL-S, P5QL-E, P5QL-SE, P5QL. All based on Intel platform and AMI Legacy BIOS Core In the second half year of 2008, I worked on pre-development of EFI-BIOS for ASUS mainboard. I wrote a Dual bootblock module and added NTFS support(read only) for AutoRecovery module using AMI Apito platform (based on EFI).
Interesting experience, but memories will fade! Details can't be remembered clearly.
As Vladimir said, if the chipset is unsupported then writing MRC for it will be a very long and difficult process. If the chipset is supported then adding mainboard support may be a relatively simple task that not sufficient for GSoC.
Do we need to write MRC by ourselves in coreboot? Isn't MRC code supported by Intel?
If you have experience with UEFI, perhaps you can implement features that are missing in our Tianocore support: http://www.coreboot.org/TianoCore .
Implementing UEFI CBFS driver and GOP driver are very clear goal. questions: I don't know whether coreboot or some payload implement common flash interface for flash programming software. If not, why?
It seems that Tiano payload is a very activity project. I think I can try my best to implement one feature or twp for the project! Like use a seperate Fv in CBFS as Fault Tolerant Variable Storage
Look forward to your kind advice!
On 3/20/14, David Hendricks dhendrix@google.com wrote:
Hi Jinyi, Can you provide more details about your work as a BIOS engineer?
As Vladimir said, if the chipset is unsupported then writing MRC for it will be a very long and difficult process. If the chipset is supported then adding mainboard support may be a relatively simple task that not sufficient for GSoC.
If you have experience with UEFI, perhaps you can implement features that are missing in our Tianocore support: http://www.coreboot.org/TianoCore .
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Allen Yan lexkde@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I am Jinyi Yan , a second year PhD candidate from Shanghai Institute of Micro-system and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I used to be a mainboard BIOS engineer in ASUS Technology Suzhou Co., Ltd for about two years (2007.7~2009.2). My major now is optoelectronics. But I have a lot of fun while programming, in my heart the working experience of being a BIOS engineer is still very exciting. I think GsoC is a nice platform for me to participate the open source community. When I search the GsoC projects and organizations, the coreboot and flashrom projects are definitely the right choices for me. I have a spare ASUS P5KPL PC at my hand, but the chipset is not in the support list of coreboot project. As Stefan Tauner's suggestion, maybe porting coreboot to new mainboard or implementing advanced coreboot features on exsiting mainboards are nice too. Now I'm not very familiar with the program structure of coreboot, so I expect your guidence and hope to contribute for coreboot and flashrom even if my application is not accpeted. Thanks! Look forward to your kind advice! Regards, Jinyi Yan
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