(Sent to dri-devel and intel-gfx lists.)
Dear Linux graphics folks,
coreboot has been accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013 [1]. coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers.
Please find more information about GSoC in our Wiki [3], where some project ideas are already listed [4]. But you can of course propose your own ideas.
A nice project for you graphics folks might be to work on native graphics initialization to replace the Video BIOS [5][6]. For example on the Chromebook Pixel (Google Link) the Video BIOS takes 1.5 s and the native graphics initialization just 200 ms [7].
So if you are interested, please join the coreboot list and the IRC channel, ask questions and submit your proposal. We are looking forward to it!
Thanks and happy coding,
Paul
PS: If you know somebody interested in this, please spread the word.
[1] http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2013/03/30/google-summer-of-code-2013/ [2] http://www.coreboot.org/ [3] http://www.coreboot.org/GSoC [4] http://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas [5] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g8FMob25VZYxbWri2iFB8YiSL8gwF9vKJH3HGxr0... [6] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2013-March/075512.html [7] http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/2531/5//COMMIT_MSG