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On 11/06/2015 03:13 PM, Vladimir wrote:
Yes, I really want to participate in the Lenovo G505S porting from AGESA to Native Init ! But, to be honest, I have never done such a task before, so my experience is probably not enough for doing this port alone by myself : I cannot even estimate the amount of necessary work and don't know where to start... (Dear Timothy, could you please point me to any good examples of AGESA --> Native Init porting?) However, I will be very glad to help as much as I could by being a build tester: I can constantly test these "native init" builds on my hardware - as many build iterations as it needed in order to help make "Native Init" a stable and good enough candidate for replacing AGESA
Also I will seriously consider donating some Money/Things to those coreboot developers who will make significant commits for bringing G505S "Native Init" port to life, although my financial abilities became very limited after Rubble currency collapse so unfortunately I cannot guarantee this type of support as well as how much would be the amount of donations...
Lenovo G505S uses quad core A10-5750M APU which is Richland architecture. This architecture does not include PSP hardware ( ARM TrustZone security co-processor) , so luckily this Family 15h RL laptop does not need a PSP blob ;-)
By the way there are just two AMD-based laptops that are supported by coreboot, and another one is HP M6-1035DX which has weaker hardware / smaller availability / lack of manufacturer support (HP quickly forgets their old laptop models and probably already stopped replacement motherboards production for this laptop - but I'd be happy to be wrong here) . As for now, G505S seems to be the only AMD laptop which is supported by coreboot and is really alive , so hopefully its code will be allowed to stay in its AGESA shape until a stable "Native Init" replacement will be introduced
Best regards, Vladimir Shipovalov
Unfortunately I don't think there are any guides for porting from AGESA to native initialisation. In theory it might be best to copy a known working native laptop (e.g. a Family 10h/K8 machine), then bring over all the code from the AGESA board that is machine specific.
The biggest concern here is that this is an APU-based machine, and as such I have no idea if there is non-AGESA "chipset" support, or how difficult it would be to create said support. If there are any other developers on list that might be interested in helping out please chime in here!
I would also imagine at minimum the person doing the power would need direct access to a G505S machine.
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