I think we can list all of the ideas together and choose those which fit for the GSoc 2009.
Jason Wang BeiJing Technology Development Center Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niels Ole Salscheider Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [coreboot] GSoC 2009 deadlines Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2009 04:32:15 schrieb Joseph Smith: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:50:26 +0100, Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > On 10.03.2009 20:16 Uhr, Joseph Smith wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:50:34 +0100, Stefan Reinauer > > > > <[email protected]> > > > >> wrote: > >>> On 10.03.2009 16:02 Uhr, ron minnich wrote: > >>>> The project I'd like to see is AVATT v. 2 -- get it on real hardware. > >>>> > >>>> AVATT is a virtual machine in flash. kernel + kvm + coreboot. > >>> > >>> I have two more ideas: > >>> > >>> - vga option rom for geode LX (same as last year, didn't get done due > >>> too few students assigned to us) > >>> - storage option rom for usb boot in seabios. (I started this already, > >>> but I am not sure if I can finish it) > >> > >> I like these :-) > >> > >> What about a filo read/write on-flash file system (1 block would be > > > > plenty) > > > >> to store filo.conf for filo 1.0?? > > > > Very good plan, too. > > Actually it would be better to make the read/write on-flash file system > part of libpayload so any payload can use it. It might be useful if we could make such a file system accessible from Linux, too. Could we extend flashrom so that it can mount this filesystem via fuse? Ole -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
