I'm a lurker here (keep up the great work everyone! <3), but I saw this and thought it looked relevant to coreboot development that a link should be posted.
Quoting from the website:
The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) provides a bootable pre-OS environment for testing BIOSes and in particular their initialization of Intel processors, hardware, and technologies. BITS can verify your BIOS against many Intel recommendations. In addition, BITS includes Intel's official reference code as provided to BIOS, which you can use to override your BIOS's hardware initialization with a known-good configuration, and then boot an OS.
I haven't looked into it deeply enough and nor have I used coreboot enough to know if it will be helpful, but I certainly hope it will.
Andrew Guertin wrote:
]I'm a lurker here (keep up the great work everyone! <3), but I saw this and ]thought it looked relevant to coreboot development that a link should be posted. ] ]http://biosbits.org/ ] ]Quoting from the website: ]> The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) provides a bootable pre-OS ]> environment for testing BIOSes and in particular their initialization of ]> Intel processors, hardware, and technologies. BITS can verify your BIOS ]> against many Intel recommendations. In addition, BITS includes Intel's ]> official reference code as provided to BIOS, which you can use to override ]> your BIOS's hardware initialization with a known-good configuration, and then ]> boot an OS. ] ]I haven't looked into it deeply enough and nor have I used coreboot enough to ]know if it will be helpful, but I certainly hope it will. ] ]-- ]dolphinling ]http://dolphinling.net/
Hello Andrew,
Thanks for pointing this out.
The reason coreboot doesn't support recent Intel processors is lack of reference code (and lack of documentation). That makes the above statement 'includes reference code' interesting. However after downloading, I find the readme says, "This toolkit includes the processor power management (PPM) reference code". Sure enough, no memory initialization or other reference code is included, as far as I can tell.
AMD recently contributed full processor and chipset reference code to the coreboot project, along with two working coreboot ports to demonstrate its use.
Thanks, ScottD
On 02/26/2011 06:23 PM, Scott Duplichan wrote: code is included, as far as I can tell.
AMD recently contributed full processor and chipset reference code to the coreboot project, along with two working coreboot ports to demonstrate its use.
You cannot really compare AMD to Intel, the same way you cannot compare an athlete to an old fart. :)
Alex
On 02/26/2011 11:27 AM, Alex G. wrote:
On 02/26/2011 06:23 PM, Scott Duplichan wrote: code is included, as far as I can tell.
AMD recently contributed full processor and chipset reference code to the coreboot project, along with two working coreboot ports to demonstrate its use.
You cannot really compare AMD to Intel, the same way you cannot compare an athlete to an old fart. :)
The day Intel directly contributes code to coreboot will be the day monkeys land on mars.
On 02/26/2011 08:24 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 02/26/2011 11:27 AM, Alex G. wrote:
On 02/26/2011 06:23 PM, Scott Duplichan wrote: code is included, as far as I can tell.
AMD recently contributed full processor and chipset reference code to the coreboot project, along with two working coreboot ports to demonstrate its use.
You cannot really compare AMD to Intel, the same way you cannot compare an athlete to an old fart. :)
The day Intel directly contributes code to coreboot will be the day monkeys land on mars.
And I have no problem with that as long as AMD provides me with the best performance-per-penny, and the best performance-per-watt.
Alex
On 02/26/2011 11:23 AM, Scott Duplichan wrote:
AMD recently contributed full processor and chipset reference code to the coreboot project, along with two working coreboot ports to demonstrate its use.
FYI, AMD has been contributing code to coreboot for many years now, My fedora is off to them, many thanks, you know who you are :-)
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