[coreboot] Embedded Controller (EC)

[Vadim Bendebury]

[+cc a couple of guys who might have some advice in this respect]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Аладышев Константин <aladyshev at nicevt.ru>
wrote:

> Hello! I'm trying to understand, what is the easiest way today to integrate
> EC to custom motherboard? What controller should I choose for new custom
> motherboard?
>
> 1) First of all, are there any ECs on market that ship with embedded
> firmware, where all you need to do is just a little bit of register
> configuration (like SuperIO)? Or is it always like you need to write all
> firmware by yourself? In that case what is the main difference between
> ordinary microcontroller (for example STM32) and some controller marked by
> vendor as EC?
>
> 2) How stable and flexible are projects about open EC firmware? Is it
> possible to adapt these projects for my custom motherboard?
>
> I'm talking about:
> - Chromium Embedded Controller:
> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ec-development
> - Origami-EC: https://git.code.paulk.fr/gitweb/?p=origami-ec.git;a=summary
>
> 3) What is the current status of EC support from coreboot point of view?
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/ec
>
> Best regards,
> Aladyshev Konstantin
>
>
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