[coreboot] From wildcat linking to exploring new languages

[ron minnich]

I would say bring it in to the repo. We have assembly, we have our own C
compiler even, so a higher level language hardly seems a bad idea. If this
can make our code base better in some way, why not use it?

ron

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:55 AM Nico Huber <nico.huber at secunet.com> wrote:

> Am 21.08.2015 22:47, schrieb ron minnich:
> > This sounds wonderful. I'm all for it.
> Did you just kill any discussion with that line? :)
>
> Things live currently in a small library that I called `libsparkhw`
> (came spontaneously, I don't care much about the name). It contains
> some framework (Timer, I/O, Debugging) to do hardware stuff in SPARK,
> plus the mentioned graphics initialization. I falter to push it directly
> for inclusion into the coreboot repo. Maybe we want a separate reposi-
> tory for it (like libpayload has)? It would also make it easier to use
> it in other components (e.g. bootloaders and such, and of course our own
> products where the code stems from).
>
> We have discussed the licensing and will push this under GPLv2 + later
> if there are no reasonable concerns.
>
> Nico
>
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