On 09/05/08 08:32 -0400, Marc Karasek wrote:
All,
To help move us forward.
Some of you know that I am looking at coreboot as the *first choice* for a project I am working on here at Sun. There are still a lot of details to be worked out, but the more information I gather, the better things are looking. What I need to do is get a stable environment up and running on SimNOW. The GPLing of the AGESA code and how this all fits into Coreboot is also a major item.
I am working on the SimNOW issue, trying to get LAB working first, but would need to show multiple (LAB, gPXE, etc.) running on SimNOW. This would greatly help my case within Sun. The target for this is to be able to boot over the network/fabric. Local storage/boot media needs to be limited to flash.
I am here to help. As a quick census, here is where the buildrom payloads stand with regard to SimNow:
LAB -> You are working on this right now etherboot -> Unknown. Embaressingly, I have never gotten network to work on SimNow ... :( filo -> Needs a minor workaround, but works ofw -> unknown openbios -> unknown memtest -> works kernel -> works coreinfo -> works tint -> works grub2 - > unknown
I'm beginning to think that we should post ROMs for SimNow + these payloads on the coreboot website (like we do with Qemu), so that people can play with them. Would that be of interest to anybody?
Jordan