Since arm based netbook/pads are getting more popular, arm system are getting more complicated, lots of them now should deal with pci/pcie devices, much of them also should support sas/sata/scsi based disks. Coreboot has a great advantage about dealing with this.
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:21 AM, bari bari@onelabs.com 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.
-Bari
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