"Taiidan@gmx.com" Taiidan@gmx.com writes:
Yeah porting the main payloads to RISC-V (also consider OpenPOWER) is a great plan, GRUB2 and SeaBIOS are the main ones - SeaBIOS is the default and most people use that as it "just works" as a traditional "BIOS" firmware "F12" loader where the user is presented with a screen and can pick various such as booting from hdds, dvd drives, Option ROM etc.
This is pretty ill informed advice. SeaBIOS implements a legacy, x86 specific interface. This is not something you'd ever want to implement on non-x86 hardware.
I personally suggest that while you are skilled before you dive in neck deep and start porting you should purchase an affordable coreboot device and install it such as the KCMA-D8 which is a great owner controlled open source firmware example of coreboot.
People can contribute to coreboot without even owning a physical device on which coreboot runs, let alone *your* favorite board. The board you suggest is not a good example at all. The code supporting that board has some serious quality issues.
Kind regards