Cherry Trail Support

[Arne Zachlod]

Hi all,

I got a GPD Pocket with an Atom X7-Z8750 (Cherry Trail).

I would like to use coreboot with it, but there seems to be no support
for Cherry Trail, is support for this platform planned/worked on or is
this more likely not going to happen?

Thanks,
Arne

[Nico Huber]

Hi Arne,

On 16.07.2017 11:48, Arne Zachlod wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got a GPD Pocket with an Atom X7-Z8750 (Cherry Trail).

currently unsupported, AFAIK.
> I would like to use coreboot with it, but there seems to be no support
> for Cherry Trail, is support for this platform planned/worked on or is
> this more likely not going to happen?

There is support for Braswell (Cherry Trail's professional brother,
AFAICT) through an FSP blob. Intel is always absolutely unspecific
about which SKUs their blobs support. You could poke somebody at
Intel or Google with access to the source code to find out. Although,
if the blob supports Cherry Trail, there'd still be work to do in
coreboot.

If the Braswell blob doesn't support Cherry Trail, it's very unlikely
that anything will happen. To convince Intel to do something on the
matter, you'd need a huge business case. Otherwise, somebody would have
to reverse engineer the code (unlikely to happen by chance).

Nico

[Charlotte Plusplus]

It is this the small cool machine I bought with me in Denver and showed
around.

Cherry trail seems to have made its way to a lot of cheap laptop and
tablets too (BestBuy Insignia 11' tablet)

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Arne Zachlod  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got a GPD Pocket with an Atom X7-Z8750 (Cherry Trail).
>
> I would like to use coreboot with it, but there seems to be no support
> for Cherry Trail, is support for this platform planned/worked on or is
> this more likely not going to happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Arne