[coreboot] coreboot AGESA support
Ward Vandewege
ward at gnu.org
Sat Apr 12 23:34:23 CEST 2008
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:31:53PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 12/04/08 10:10 -0400, Tom Sylla wrote:
> > This is mostly for the AMD guys, but is probably relevant to many on the list.
> >
> > Is anyone working on getting AGESA working in coreboot again? Back
> > when we were deciding on a firmware solution for our platform, the
> > plan for LinuxBIOS AGESA support was a very good advantage for
> > coreboot. After seeing the path for AGESA support languish for a few
> > months, as well as Opteron support in general, we decided to use AMI
> > instead (for various other reasons too). With AMI, every month or so,
> > we get new AGESA drop, plop it in our build, and get various errata
> > fixes, HT support, Barcelona fixes, etc.
> >
> > Is there any plan for this?
>
> You need to read Marc's slides from the summit. Long story short, yes.
>
> (Ron, please get those up!)
They're up, linked from this page (look for Marc's talk):
http://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_Symposium_2008
Thanks,
Ward.
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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
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