My advice if you're working with those chromebooks is to start with the chromeos tree, not the upstream.
ron On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Matt DeVillier <[email protected]> wrote: > While a couple of the Haswell-based ChromeBooks have been added to > upstream coreboot, but have not heard of anyone with them actually running > yet. I know John Lewis had tried to get the HP ChromeBook 14 (falco) going > but was not successful (though he does have the Chromium/falco branch > working), and I assume the same is true for the Acer C720 (peppy) too, as > they are nearly identical. Looking at it briefly, I'd suspect the issues > are related to the display init or Google's EC, but haven't had a chance to > play with one myself yet. > > I have upstream coreboot running on the Haswell-based Asus ChromeBox > (panther), and have submitted patches for it, but they have not yet been > accepted/merged in. Also works for the nearly-identical HP ChromeBox > (zako). I can throw my branch up on github in the meantime if would be > useful, but that's where I'd recommend starting (vs the ChromeBooks). > > cheers, > Matt > > > On 7/2/2014 11:09 AM, ron minnich 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 >> > > > > >
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