[coreboot] [GSoC 2016] ROM-O-Matic project

[ron minnich]

That's great to hear. So it sounds like rom o matic would be handy.

That said, w.r.t. features. I'm not big on features. coreboot is a chance
to brick your laptop. That means
rom o matic should never ever ever give you a bad coreboot image.

What would be cool would be to have a program they can run that creates a
string, and the either you paste
that string into a form or it connects and pastes it in (but what about
DDOS?) and you get back a URL for an image
that is known to work. Could the coreboot board status repo be used to
determine this?

I think the messy part is that just because you have, say, an "x220",
doesn't mean coreboot works on it, because PCs
are never the same, even given the same number. So you need a very long
signature that can confirm the coreboot
running on everyone else's "x220" will work on yours.

Do we have any record as to how uniform, e.g., the x220 experience has
been? I know the chromebook uniformity is pretty good.

ron

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:07 PM Alexander Couzens <lynxis at fe80.eu> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:57:23 +0000
> ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I suspect you know far more about writing such a tool than I ever
> > will, but far less about coreboot than you need to know. Your first
> > step should be to get it, build it, and boot it in qemu; bonus points
> > for doing it on real
>
> I know a lot people who don't know or have problems compiling
> coreboot on their own or they don't want to spent hours to compiling the
> toolchain + coreboot. For these people rom-o-matic is a nice thing.
>
> German hacker culture likes coreboot a lot. Last coreboot user
> group meeting a journalist showed up. Someone spent her a x60 and she
> would like to have coreboot on it. But after disassembling the hardware
> down to the board itself, it turns out, she already got coreboot. I
> never looked at the x60 bios booting up :).
>
> There are also the cryptoparty people, they also support coreboot.
> zaolin is doing installation partys at his hackerspace, too. And may
> others do the same.
> --
> Alexander Couzens
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