[coreboot] Where is the source code of Coreboot for PPC?

Hamo hamo.by at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 15:51:06 CEST 2011


Thanks Corey. I got the source code I need.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>> Hamo wrote:
>>> As I want to port Coreboot to ARM, I need to study the structure of
>>> Coreboot. Since Coreboot supported PPC once, I want to study the
>>> structure of the source code.
>>
>> Is a good idea.
>>
>>
>>> But I can't find it. Can someone help me? Thanks.
>>
>> It will be in the current coreboot repository. I suggest you go
>> backwards in steps of 1000 commits, and when it's there I think you
>> should also try to build the code. Note that it will probably use the
>> old v2 style of configuring and building. (Use buildtarget in the
>> mainboards directory, it's a little odd.) The ppc stuff has not been
>> tested for a long time so it's possible that you would have to go
>> back another 1000 revs to get a working build, once you find a rev
>> that has the code.
>>
>> I think that we by now may be making a few PC-only assumptions in the
>> coreboot code, but in principle we do not want to, so if there are
>> any and they are identified then we want to not have them anymore. :)
>
> Looks like you want to go prior to r4700 or so
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-October/052650.html
>
> Note that coreboot has changed a LOT since then.
>
> -Corey
>
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