In the last few years I've argued for even 3! One to remain untouched, one to hack, and one as the backup when you burn the hack one up :-)
ron On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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