Update and help request ..

[Marc Karasek]

All,

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.
Marc

[ron minnich]

what can I do to help? I need this anyway so I can boot Plan 9 quickly
in simnow -- the only easy way to do it is to use coreboot and simnow
-- it avoids the headaches with simulating disks.

do we have a simnow page yet at wiki?

tell me what you need as I am working on simnow today and maybe the next week.

are you really doing cross builds in 64 bit? I need to know the
fastest way to do that. does buildrom do the Right Thing?

ron

[Jordan Crouse]

On 09/05/08 08:23 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> what can I do to help? I need this anyway so I can boot Plan 9 quickly
> in simnow -- the only easy way to do it is to use coreboot and simnow
> -- it avoids the headaches with simulating disks.
>
> do we have a simnow page yet at wiki?

http://www.coreboot.org/AMD_SimNow
> tell me what you need as I am working on simnow today and maybe the next week.
>
> are you really doing cross builds in 64 bit? I need to know the
> fastest way to do that. does buildrom do the Right Thing?

It should, assuming that you have a native gcc on your system that can
build 64 bit.

Jordan

[ron minnich]

excellent! I'm building the bios now. This wiki page is going to save
me a ton of work.

Thanks

ron

[Marc Karasek]

Ron,

So far this is what I have been able to get working.

1) I can compile coreboot with FILO and it boots to a filo prompt.  
Tried to get it to boot from a CD but no luck.
2) I can compile LAB and the kernel boots,  there is a exception tap 
when it goes to run linuxrc.  This seems to be tied up with using uClibc. 
3) I have not tried any of the other payloads yet.

Marc

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Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
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ron minnich wrote:
> what can I do to help? I need this anyway so I can boot Plan 9 quickly
> in simnow -- the only easy way to do it is to use coreboot and simnow
> -- it avoids the headaches with simulating disks.
>
> do we have a simnow page yet at wiki?
>
> tell me what you need as I am working on simnow today and maybe the next week.
>
> are you really doing cross builds in 64 bit? I need to know the
> fastest way to do that. does buildrom do the Right Thing?
>
> ron

[ron minnich]

if I get to Plan 9 today I'll let you know. simnow looks like heaven
for kernel debug.

how do we test gPXE? how to set up the network? I'm not clear on that yet.
ron

[Marc Karasek]

I have a readme on it somewhere.  You need to create a link to a local 
port and then it goes out that to the network.

*********************
Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
*********************

ron minnich wrote:
> if I get to Plan 9 today I'll let you know. simnow looks like heaven
> for kernel debug.
>
> how do we test gPXE? how to set up the network? I'm not clear on that yet.
> ron