Re: [coreboot] coreboot on the open source Berkeley RISC V processor - available ?

[punit vara]

patches for BBB are from 2013 and according to mailing list it's not
finished yet. I would like to work on it :). I found the reason to
contribute to core-boot :)

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 1:18 PM, punit vara  wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Neuschäfer
>  wrote:
> > Hello Punit and Paul,
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote:
> > > Dear Punit,
> > >
> > > Am Samstag, den 30.07.2016, 15:35 +0530 schrieb punit vara:
> > > > I am new to coreboot
> > >
> > > Welcome to coreboot.
> > > > and would like to contribute to "coreboot on the open source Berkeley
> > > > RISC V processor". Is it available to work ? I am current GSOC
> > > > student under RTEMS org developing BSP for beagle bone black for
> > > > RTEMS RTOS. If I can work on this project Please what are
> > > > the things I need to set up to work on?
> > >
> > > Sure. As coreboot is free software you of course can work on it. There
> > > are already people working on it. Mainly Jonathan Neuschäfer as you can
> > > see from the blog posts about his GSoC progress [1] and his change sets
> > > [2] (`git log --author=Neusch`).
> > >
> > > So I suggest, to get familiar with that work, build the current state
> > > and get it running with QEMU. Then just dive in the things you are
> > > interested in.
> >
> > QEMU doesn't really work anymore with current versions of the RISC-V
> > tools, and probably won't until it is updated to version 1.9 of the
> > RISC-V Privileged Architecture Specification[1]. There are some
> > instructions on how to run coreboot on RISC-V available in the coreboot
> > wiki[2]. Spike has better support in coreboot, but it still doesn't work
> > well enough to boot Linux (something's wrong with the page tables and
> > Spike doesn't implement any block devices AFAICS).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonathan Neuschäfer
> > [1]: https://riscv.org/specifications/privileged-isa/
> > [2]: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:emulation/spike-riscv
>
> Hi Joonathan,
>
> Thank you for the information. I don't have RISC-V hardware available
> right now. As you told QEMU won't work , it seems I may not able to do
> any development[ right ?]. BTW I have Beagle Bone Black I can port
> coreboot on that one if it's not available.  I was lurking on IRC and
> came to know that there are few patches on Beagle bone available. I
> have checked it out beagle bone has support for coreboot but not sure
> about beagle bone black. I will try it on BBB and let you know about
> that :)
>
> Thanks,
> Punit Vara