coreboot for VX800+Nano

[Konsstantin Lazarev]

Hello,

I am interested to participate in development of coreboot support for VIA VX8xx+Nano. I have experience in adaptation of LinuxBIOS for GeodeLX platforms in a past. And I have experience in low-level programming and vendor BIOSes (GS, Phoenix) adaptation for other VIA chipsets (CN400, VT8237, CX700, C3, C7).  Now I am working on bringing up VX800+Nano based platform (hardware is available) and very interested in moving it to open-source BIOS instead of vendor one. And any existing coreboot source code for VIA VX8xx would be very helpful. I will be glad to contribute my work to open-source BIOS project. I (my employer) have NDA signed with VIA.

Thank you,
Konstantin Lazarev.

[bari]

There is no work for Nano yet but I believe the C7 is nearly identical.

The VX800 work will be public in the next few days.

-Bari

Konsstantin Lazarev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested to participate in development of coreboot support for 
> VIA VX8xx+Nano. I have experience in adaptation of LinuxBIOS for GeodeLX 
> platforms in a past. And I have experience in low-level programming and 
> vendor BIOSes (GS, Phoenix) adaptation for other VIA chipsets (CN400, 
> VT8237, CX700, C3, C7).  Now I am working on bringing up VX800+Nano 
> based platform (hardware is available) and very interested in moving it 
> to open-source BIOS instead of vendor one. And any existing coreboot 
> source code for VIA VX8xx would be very helpful. I will be glad to 
> contribute my work to open-source BIOS project. I (my employer) have NDA 
> signed with VIA.
>
> Thank you,
> Konstantin Lazarev.

[Konsstantin Lazarev]

Thank you, Bari, for youe response.
I have fiollowing questions:
1. May I count on this release during next week? I have very tught schedule for this project. 
2. Does coreboot support output to UART ports in vx800?
3. Does coreboot/filo support read from SD adapter?

Thank you,
 Konstantin Lazarev

________________________________
From: bari 
To: Konsstantin Lazarev 
Cc: [e-mail]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:36:01 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] coreboot for VX800+Nano

There is no work for Nano yet but I believe the C7 is nearly identical.

The VX800 work will be public in the next few days.

-Bari

Konsstantin Lazarev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested to participate in development of coreboot support for VIA VX8xx+Nano. I have experience in adaptation of LinuxBIOS for GeodeLX platforms in a past. And I have experience in low-level programming and vendor BIOSes (GS, Phoenix) adaptation for other VIA chipsets (CN400, VT8237, CX700, C3, C7).  Now I am working on bringing up VX800+Nano based platform (hardware is available) and very interested in moving it to open-source BIOS instead of vendor one. And any existing coreboot source code for VIA VX8xx would be very helpful. I will be glad to contribute my work to open-source BIOS project. I (my employer) have NDA signed with VIA.
>
> Thank you,
> Konstantin Lazarev.

[bari]

Konsstantin Lazarev wrote:
> Thank you, Bari, for youe response.
> I have fiollowing questions:
> May I count on this release during next week? I have very tught
>
> schedule for this project.

Yes. But, the version to go public will need some work.
> Does coreboot support output to UART ports in vx800?

I haven't tried the patch yet on actual hardware myself. It was 
definitely working on a vx800 dev board. UART support should be simple 
since serial debug is they way coreboot was developed on this board. I 
can't tell you if that dev board used the vx800 uarts or an external 
uart. Maybe someone else that climbed through the patch can tell you more.

-Bari