[coreboot] I want to be a contributor (Cloud Dai)

戴,曉政 cloud0907 at yahoo.com.tw
Fri Jan 19 16:04:14 CET 2018


Dear Taiidan,

According to your previous letter, does H8SCM be a pre-PSP AMD mainboard? If yes, I will buy one as soon as possible.
Thank for your response.

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Today's Topics:

   1. I want to be a contributor (????)
   2. Re: Server systems shipped with coreboot (Julien Viard de Galbert)
   3. x86 validation suite (ron minnich)
   4. Re: Server systems shipped with coreboot (Nico Huber)
   5. Re: x86 validation suite (Igor Skochinsky)
   6. Re: Server systems shipped with coreboot (awokd)
   7. Re: x86 validation suite (Zoran Stojsavljevic)
   8. Re: I want to be a contributor (Taiidan at gmx.com)
   9. FOSDEM 2018 beverage round? (Daniel Kulesz)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:08:57 +0800
From: ???? <cloud0907 at yahoo.com.tw>
To: "coreboot at coreboot.org" <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: [coreboot] I want to be a contributor
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Dear All,

I hope I can be a contributor in coreboot so I plan buy a mainboard and use tiano core to port it. Maybe ASUS P2B is a good idea but I have some question.
1. EC code doesn?t be included in coreboot, how can I include EC code into my coreboot bin file? Use ME?
2. How can I get EC bin file from OEM bios and how can I get  VBIOS from OEM bios?
3. I have ME9, ME10 and ME11 firmware now, which ME I must use to integrate my coreboot rom and EC
4. How can I use SF-100 to flash bios into mainboard, welding jumper?
5. Most coreboot projects don?t use tiano core to port them, but I am a OEM BIOS engineer and I already use tiano architecture 7 years, so I hope I can use tiano core to be payload, does everyone know which coreboot project does use tiano core to be payload?

P.S. Please forgive my poor English, thank!!


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:55:03 +0100
From: Julien Viard de Galbert <jviarddegalbert at online.net>
To: coreboot at coreboot.org
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot
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Hello Felix, and all,

> Le 18 janv. 2018 ? 04:17, Felix Held <felix-coreboot at felixheld.de> a ?crit :
> 
> Hi Carl-Daniel!
> 
>> At 34C3 I was told by someone that a major vendor has been shipping
>> servers with coreboot without announcing this, and I unfortunately
>> neither remember the server model nor who told me about this.
> This might be related: https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/hwenablement_open_source_bios_at_scale/ <https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/hwenablement_open_source_bios_at_scale/>

Well no, I don?t think it could be, or the person was not well informed.

We are not a vendor, but a hosting/cloud company, so we rent servers or service running on them, we do not ship them.
Also none of those servers with coreboot were available yet during 34C3.

Anyway, you are welcome to come to my talk at FOSDEM for more details ;-)

Best Regards,

Julien


> 
> Regards
> Felix
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:54:49 +0000
From: ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
To: coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: [coreboot] x86 validation suite
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Anybody out there know of an x86 emulation validation suite?

thanks

ron
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:37:07 +0100
From: Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>,
	Coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot
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Hi Carl-Daniel,

On 16.01.2018 19:29, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> At 34C3 I was told by someone that a major vendor has been shipping
> servers with coreboot without announcing this, and I unfortunately
> neither remember the server model nor who told me about this. If said
> person could remind contact me, I'd be thankful.

it wasn't me. Though I remember somewhere around December somebody
reported DMI information on IRC from a cloud server running on an ADI
something from Adlink, likely some microserver. Also, not sure if
related, there where some questions from Dell employees on the ML last
year.

Generally, you can expect microservers with coreboot nowadays (anything
supported by Intel's IoT group). But no fully fledged powerful server
(which is still 100% unsupported by Intel). So if you are looking for
the latter, your options are (as mentioned before) stale AMD systems,
OpenPower (not coreboot but open), modern Intel (maybe AMD too?) servers
shipping with UEFI that you can reduce (NERF, not open but best boot
experience you can get with proprietary firmware (beside coreboot+blobs)
I guess).

If you are looking for microservers, I'd go around and ask. Starting
with Adlink.

Nico



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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:54:18 +0100
From: Igor Skochinsky <skochinsky at mail.ru>
To: ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>, coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] x86 validation suite
Message-ID: <1409274236.20180118195418 at mail.ru>
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Hi Ron,

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 6:54:49 PM, you wrote:

rm> Anybody out there know of an x86 emulation validation suite?

There's test-i386.c in QEMU which seems to be quite complete.

I also found a paper "Design and Testing of a CPU Emulator" from
MS Research[1]. The mentioned Giano emulator can be downloaded here (MSI installer):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52537

but I did not find the test suite from a quick look.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/techeport20cpu_test20v4.pdf


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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:57:34 -0000
From: "awokd" <awokd at danwin1210.me>
To: "Nico Huber" <nico.h at gmx.de>
Cc: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>,
	"Coreboot" <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot
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On Thu, January 18, 2018 6:37 pm, Nico Huber wrote:


> Generally, you can expect microservers with coreboot nowadays (anything
> supported by Intel's IoT group).

If you're talking IoT range, AMD APU Coreboot can be seen at
http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm for example.





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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:00:30 +0100
From: Zoran Stojsavljevic <zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>, Igor Skochinsky
	<skochinsky at mail.ru>
Cc: coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] x86 validation suite
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Nothing simpler, my dear friend Ron.

Do the following steps (on your
Linux/Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/RHEL/Fedora/Centos):
[1] Go to YOCTO project: https://www.yoctoproject.org
[2] Go to the following site: https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads
[3] Do git clone Rocko: git clone -b rocko git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git
[4] Go to poky/ directory, do the following: . oe-init-build-env
[5] go to build/conf, and find there local.conf
[6] there are two variables there:
      #MACHINE ?= "qemux86"
      #MACHINE ?= 'qemux86-64"
[7] Un-comment one (whatever you need), save the file, exit from the
local.conf, and do the following
     bitbake -k core-image-minimal
[8] When it finishes (after 3 to 6 hours), do the: runqemu qemux86(-64),

U R all set!

Enjoy!
Zoran
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:54 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody out there know of an x86 emulation validation suite?
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:26:43 -0500
From: "Taiidan at gmx.com" <Taiidan at gmx.com>
To: ???? <cloud0907 at yahoo.com.tw>, "coreboot at coreboot.org"
	<coreboot at coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] I want to be a contributor
Message-ID: <3a1089ee-4de0-cee0-2201-9e6009c29a89 at gmx.com>
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On 01/18/2018 07:08 AM, ???? via coreboot wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I hope I can be a contributor in coreboot so I plan buy a mainboard and use tiano core to port it. Maybe ASUS P2B is a good idea
Isn't that board is from 1999? I don't think that would be useful.

I suggest the H8SCM ported to coreboot's native fam15h init, as you can 
pick one up for $30, they support IOMMU and the old but still fast 
enough to be useful C32 Opteron's.
> but I have some question.
> 1. EC code doesn?t be included in coreboot, how can I include EC code into my coreboot bin file? Use ME?
EC is generally embedded on the motherboard and coreboot isn't that 
involved with it.
> 2. How can I get EC bin file from OEM bios
Not sure, I hope someone else will answer.
>   and how can I get  VBIOS from OEM bios?
Instructions are on the wiki.
> 3. I have ME9, ME10 and ME11 firmware now, which ME I must use to integrate my coreboot rom and EC
Depends on the CPU version.
Of course if you are looking to learn you can also port a pre-PSP AMD 
board which doesn't need any of this, I suggest this as there are some 
very cheap and widely available board models that are still new enough 
to be worth doing.
I also suggest the ivy bridge xeon counterpart, that would also be useful.
> 4. How can I use SF-100 to flash bios into mainboard, welding jumper?
Hm? I use a USB CH341A with my removable dip8 chips and a test clip for 
the soic-8 chips.
> 5. Most coreboot projects don?t use tiano core to port them, but I am a OEM BIOS engineer and I already use tiano architecture 7 years, so I hope I can use tiano core to be payload, does everyone know which coreboot project does use tiano core to be payload?
You are able to pick a payload with any coreboot board.
> P.S. Please forgive my poor English, thank!!
Welcome :D



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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:32:44 +0100
From: Daniel Kulesz <daniel.ina1 at googlemail.com>
To: coreboot at coreboot.org
Subject: [coreboot] FOSDEM 2018 beverage round?
Message-ID: <20180119003244.7546786a1cac24255995cf78 at googlemail.com>
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Hi folks,

I've read about the "discussion over beers or another prefered beverage" at FOSDEM 2018 a couple of days ago here on this list. Since I definitely plan to attend FOSDEM this year again (I got my talk in the testing and automation devroom accepted), I was wondering what the requirements for joining this bevereage round are and if there are already any concrete plans for that.

Cheers, Daniel



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