Martin, Thank you for the reply. I think I will stick with one of the suggested project ideas for GSoC, but I will definitely continue to work on ports for my hardware on the side.
Regarding the Ghidra loader project idea, is there an assigned mentor? I have some questions regarding the scope of the project. In addition to a loader for firmware images, I think scripts for importing common UEFI types/structures/GUIDs could be useful. Similar scripts [1, 2] are available for IDA Pro. Having such tools for Ghidra could assist with UEFI reverse engineering. [1] https://github.com/snare/ida-efiutils [2] https://github.com/danse-macabre/ida-efitools Thank you again. I look forward to contributing to this project. Alex On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:16 AM Martin Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > I think that porting the gigabyte platform could be at least part of > a GSOC project. The port by itself probably wouldn't be enough to be > considered a full project, since much of the work can already be done > automatically by autoport. > > I'd probably discourage the HP port due to the age of the platform and > the possible difficulty with the embedded controller, but wouldn't > strictly rule it out as a gsoc project. > > Martin > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:40 PM Alex James <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am a student interested in contributing to coreboot as part of GSoC > 2019. I have seen the ideas list on the documentation page, and I am > considering working on fixing issues reported by Coverity Scan, and maybe > additional work on firmware RE tools. However, I would like to know if > ports to new mainboards/systems would be an acceptable project. I have an > Ivy Bridge desktop (Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H) as well as a Arrandale laptop > (HP Pavilion dv7), and I am interested in porting coreboot to these > platforms. I do have some experience with UEFI programming in C (as well as > x86(_64) ASM). > > > > Thank you. > > Alex James > > _______________________________________________ > > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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