Hello! What he said. Ron you are very right here. The rules were one to use, and one to ,ah, hack.
Now I freely admit all I know about bringing Coreboot to the Chromebooks is what is discussed here. But I did indeed study and follow the earlier efforts, and doing these ports can be considered useful and even important. I for one would indeed want to buy a Chromebook wearing Coreboot and Haswell based. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > As always, when doing a new board, get a system that is known to work with > coreboot and has your chipset in it. You should get several (never just > one!) of the haswell chromebooks, build coreboot, make sure you can make it > all work, then try the port to your board. > > ron > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, David Hendricks <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Paul Wilcox-Baker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Dear coreboot, >>> >>> We are interested in coreboot for the Intel Haswell processors. >>> coreboot appears to be used in the Acer C720 and HP Chromebooks >>> that use Haswell processors. I see no reference to this processor, >>> or to these products in the source code that I downloaded recently. >> >> >> Are you sure? 'git grep haswell' turns up 160 references as of 931c1d. >> >> >>> There is also no reference to these products in the "products >>> supported" web page of coreboot.org. >> >> >> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops >> >>> >>> We are developing hardware using the Haswell processor and 82C226 >>> PCH part. How do we port coreboot to these devices? As Acer and HP >>> have done it, it's obviously possible. >> >> >> Start by grepping for NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_HASWELL in the source tree. >> >> Note: The following URL has a codename <--> marketing name decoder for >> Chromebooks: >> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices >> >>> Any advice gratefully received! >>> >>> Thanks, Paul. >>> >>> -- >>> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >>> http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >> >> >> >> -- >> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
