Hello! What he said. Ron you are very right here. The rules were one to use, and one to ,ah, hack.
Now I freely admit all I know about bringing Coreboot to the Chromebooks is what is discussed here. But I did indeed study and follow the earlier efforts, and doing these ports can be considered useful and even important.
I for one would indeed want to buy a Chromebook wearing Coreboot and Haswell based. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
As always, when doing a new board, get a system that is known to work with coreboot and has your chipset in it. You should get several (never just one!) of the haswell chromebooks, build coreboot, make sure you can make it all work, then try the port to your board.
ron
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, David Hendricks david.hendricks@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Paul Wilcox-Baker wilcoxbaker@gmail.com wrote:
Dear coreboot,
We are interested in coreboot for the Intel Haswell processors. coreboot appears to be used in the Acer C720 and HP Chromebooks that use Haswell processors. I see no reference to this processor, or to these products in the source code that I downloaded recently.
Are you sure? 'git grep haswell' turns up 160 references as of 931c1d.
There is also no reference to these products in the "products supported" web page of coreboot.org.
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops
We are developing hardware using the Haswell processor and 82C226 PCH part. How do we port coreboot to these devices? As Acer and HP have done it, it's obviously possible.
Start by grepping for NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_HASWELL in the source tree.
Note: The following URL has a codename <--> marketing name decoder for Chromebooks: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devi...
Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks, Paul.
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