[coreboot] From wildcat linking to exploring new languages

[Aaron Durbin]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:12 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Does this mean we can start writing our userland tools in golang?

>
> 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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