Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-26 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi Scott, I agree that several things are missing for a full experience. I'm just collecting a bunch of pointers where code could come from to be adapted. Am Montag, den 24.03.2014, 22:37 -0500 schrieb Scott Duplichan: > 1) UEFI support for writing to flash memory. The UEFI name is > Firmware Vol

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-24 Thread Scott Duplichan
Allen Yan [mailto:lex...@gmail.com] wrote: ]Oh, sorry, incorrect address! ]http://www.google-]melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/jinyiyan/5629499534213120 ] ]TianoCore as Coreboot payload ]JinyiYan ] ]Short description: The combination of coreboot + TianoCore ]is the most straightfor

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-23 Thread Allen Yan
Oh, sorry, incorrect address! http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/jinyiyan/5629499534213120 On 3/22/14, Stefan Tauner wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:23:51 +0800 > Allen Yan wrote: > >> Hi, everyone, >>I've sent a preliminary proposal about "Tianocore as corebo

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-21 Thread Stefan Tauner
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:23:51 +0800 Allen Yan wrote: > Hi, everyone, >I've sent a preliminary proposal about "Tianocore as coreboot payload". > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/jinyiyan/5629499534213120 > I'd like to get more feedback about the goal

[coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-21 Thread Allen Yan
Hi, everyone, I've sent a preliminary proposal about "Tianocore as coreboot payload". https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/jinyiyan/5629499534213120 I'd like to get more feedback about the goal and the test environment. Thanks! Regards! Jinyi Yan --

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:41 AM, mrnuke wrote: > Not sure I care much about Intel nowadays. They are already part of the > "fellatio_admin" group in my books. No offense intended, but your cares in this case are of no real importance compared to the cares of the companies that are shipping O(1M)

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread mrnuke
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 09:36:06 AM ron minnich wrote: > >> How about, "all of them" at one time or another. One vendor had an > >> internal memo stating that anyone who talked to me (my name was on it) > >> about LinuxBIOS would be terminated. > > > > You're popular it seems. How about within

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread mrnuke
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 09:08:18 AM ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, mrnuke wrote: > > BTW, has any manufacturer been hostile in the past in any way relating to > > coreboot supporting hardware they would rather have kept closed/secret? > > ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:33 AM, mrnuke wrote: > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 09:08:18 AM ron minnich wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, mrnuke wrote: >> > BTW, has any manufacturer been hostile in the past in any way relating to >> > coreboot supporting hardware they would rather have kep

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread mrnuke
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 09:08:18 AM ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, mrnuke wrote: > > BTW, has any manufacturer been hostile in the past in any way relating to > > coreboot supporting hardware they would rather have kept closed/secret? > > ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, mrnuke wrote: > BTW, has any manufacturer been hostile in the past in any way relating to > coreboot supporting hardware they would rather have kept closed/secret? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha h

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread mrnuke
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 08:30:58 AM ron minnich wrote: > in the proposal. We'll deal with other issues later. > > The guy that gave us the first real CAR implementation was an intel > employee who had NDAs out the ... > > > and it was not an issue. > > Let's not start putting in roadblock

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread ron minnich
put in the proposal. We'll deal with other issues later. The guy that gave us the first real CAR implementation was an intel employee who had NDAs out the ... and it was not an issue. Let's not start putting in roadblocks. We're not lawyers. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.o

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread mrnuke
Hi Allen, There's less than 24 hours left to submit proposals. If you want to do this, I suggest you get your proposal up before the deadline (March 21st). While I do not know the details of your employment contract with ASUS, I find it irrelevant for the purpose of you working on coreboot. Doe

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2014 13:45, Peter Stuge wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> On 20.03.2014 11:25, Allen Yan wrote: >>> Hi, David, >>>When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios >>> porting and fixing bug. >> >> Do I understand it correctly, that you've had access

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 20.03.2014 11:25, Allen Yan wrote: > > Hi, David, > >When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios > > porting and fixing bug. > > Do I understand it correctly, that you've had access to proprietary BIOS > code? If so which pap

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2014 11:25, Allen Yan wrote: > Hi, David, >When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios > porting and fixing bug. There were four mainboards P5KPL-S, P5QL-E, > P5QL-SE, P5QL. All based on Intel platform and AMI Legacy BIOS Core >In the second half year of 2008, I

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-20 Thread Allen Yan
Hi, David, When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios porting and fixing bug. There were four mainboards P5KPL-S, P5QL-E, P5QL-SE, P5QL. All based on Intel platform and AMI Legacy BIOS Core In the second half year of 2008, I worked on pre-development of EFI-BIOS for ASUS m

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-19 Thread David Hendricks
Hi Jinyi, Can you provide more details about your work as a BIOS engineer? As Vladimir said, if the chipset is unsupported then writing MRC for it will be a very long and difficult process. If the chipset is supported then adding mainboard support may be a relatively simple task that not sufficien

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: > well, vladimir, I would not be so discouraging. In fact if it is an > existing mainboard, and you have not done coreboot before, I suggest > doing a port, and then doing something new with the port. I think this is a good idea in general. > I'd like somebody to look at doin

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-19 Thread ron minnich
well, vladimir, I would not be so discouraging. In fact if it is an existing mainboard, and you have not done coreboot before, I suggest doing a port, and then doing something new with the port. I'd like somebody to look at doing LinuxBIOS again, i.e. getting us back to the point where we can emb

Re: [coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-19 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 19.03.2014 21:06, Allen Yan wrote: > As Stefan Tauner's suggestion, maybe porting coreboot to new mainboard Just a quick note: for porting to new chipset to be accepted, you need to: 1) Justify why this chipset is relevant. E.g. old chipsets most probably aren't. 2) Prove that you're able to do

[coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

2014-03-19 Thread Allen Yan
Hi, I am Jinyi Yan , a second year PhD candidate from Shanghai Institute of Micro-system and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I used to be a mainboard BIOS engineer in ASUS Technology Suzhou Co., Ltd for about two years (2007.7~2009.2). My major now is optoelectronics. But I hav