[coreboot] coreboot on the open source Berkeley RISC V processor - available ?

[punit vara]

patches for BBB are from 2013 and according to mailing list it's not
finished yet. I would like to work on it :). I found the reason to
contribute to core-boot :)

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 1:18 PM, punit vara <punitvara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Neuschäfer
> <j.neuschaefer at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hello Punit and Paul,
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote:
>>> Dear Punit,
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Samstag, den 30.07.2016, 15:35 +0530 schrieb punit vara:
>>>
>>> > I am new to coreboot
>>>
>>> Welcome to coreboot.
>>>
>>> > and would like to contribute to "coreboot on the open source Berkeley
>>> > RISC V processor". Is it available to work ? I am current GSOC
>>> > student under RTEMS org developing BSP for beagle bone black for
>>> > RTEMS RTOS. If I can work on this project Please what are
>>> > the things I need to set up to work on?
>>>
>>> Sure. As coreboot is free software you of course can work on it. There
>>> are already people working on it. Mainly Jonathan Neuschäfer as you can
>>> see from the blog posts about his GSoC progress [1] and his change sets
>>> [2] (`git log --author=Neusch`).
>>>
>>> So I suggest, to get familiar with that work, build the current state
>>> and get it running with QEMU. Then just dive in the things you are
>>> interested in.
>>
>> QEMU doesn't really work anymore with current versions of the RISC-V
>> tools, and probably won't until it is updated to version 1.9 of the
>> RISC-V Privileged Architecture Specification[1]. There are some
>> instructions on how to run coreboot on RISC-V available in the coreboot
>> wiki[2]. Spike has better support in coreboot, but it still doesn't work
>> well enough to boot Linux (something's wrong with the page tables and
>> Spike doesn't implement any block devices AFAICS).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan Neuschäfer
>> [1]: https://riscv.org/specifications/privileged-isa/
>> [2]: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:emulation/spike-riscv
> Hi Joonathan,
>
> Thank you for the information. I don't have RISC-V hardware available
> right now. As you told QEMU won't work , it seems I may not able to do
> any development[ right ?]. BTW I have Beagle Bone Black I can port
> coreboot on that one if it's not available.  I was lurking on IRC and
> came to know that there are few patches on Beagle bone available. I
> have checked it out beagle bone has support for coreboot but not sure
> about beagle bone black. I will try it on BBB and let you know about
> that :)
>
> Thanks,
> Punit Vara