patches for BBB are from 2013 and according to mailing list it's not finished yet. I would like to work on it :). I found the reason to contribute to core-boot :)
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 1:18 PM, punit vara <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Neuschäfer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Punit and Paul, >> >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote: >>> Dear Punit, >>> >>> >>> Am Samstag, den 30.07.2016, 15:35 +0530 schrieb punit vara: >>> >>> > I am new to coreboot >>> >>> Welcome to coreboot. >>> >>> > and would like to contribute to "coreboot on the open source Berkeley >>> > RISC V processor". Is it available to work ? I am current GSOC >>> > student under RTEMS org developing BSP for beagle bone black for >>> > RTEMS RTOS. If I can work on this project Please what are >>> > the things I need to set up to work on? >>> >>> Sure. As coreboot is free software you of course can work on it. There >>> are already people working on it. Mainly Jonathan Neuschäfer as you can >>> see from the blog posts about his GSoC progress [1] and his change sets >>> [2] (`git log --author=Neusch`). >>> >>> So I suggest, to get familiar with that work, build the current state >>> and get it running with QEMU. Then just dive in the things you are >>> interested in. >> >> QEMU doesn't really work anymore with current versions of the RISC-V >> tools, and probably won't until it is updated to version 1.9 of the >> RISC-V Privileged Architecture Specification[1]. There are some >> instructions on how to run coreboot on RISC-V available in the coreboot >> wiki[2]. Spike has better support in coreboot, but it still doesn't work >> well enough to boot Linux (something's wrong with the page tables and >> Spike doesn't implement any block devices AFAICS). >> >> >> Regards, >> Jonathan Neuschäfer >> [1]: https://riscv.org/specifications/privileged-isa/ >> [2]: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:emulation/spike-riscv > Hi Joonathan, > > Thank you for the information. I don't have RISC-V hardware available > right now. As you told QEMU won't work , it seems I may not able to do > any development[ right ?]. BTW I have Beagle Bone Black I can port > coreboot on that one if it's not available. I was lurking on IRC and > came to know that there are few patches on Beagle bone available. I > have checked it out beagle bone has support for coreboot but not sure > about beagle bone black. I will try it on BBB and let you know about > that :) > > Thanks, > Punit Vara -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
