[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Hi Enrico, (list to bcc) not speaking about the technical difficulties you face with golang or the general topic of blob use here, just one thing: Don't post conspiracy theories here. Well, two things: We also do not punching here (except for cards, maybe, if we're in the mood for some retro

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi Christian, Christian Walter wrote: > thanks for the feedback. I am totally on your site that this is not an > ideal solution - however the coreboot community has to think about how > to work around these issues. I disagree; this isn't an issue for the community, it's /your/ issue in /your/

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 23.02.21 12:35, Christian Walter wrote: Hi, Stating that this just does not get merged into the tree is not a good solution, as we are not moving forward on these topics and can not compete with proprietary solutions if we are holding on to the statement that also tooling needs to be

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 09.02.21 20:40, Arthur Heymans wrote: Hi, Shell scripts are a very bad way to construct binary data structures. Maybe a python or perl script ? Being open source does not require to be public. How so, exactly ? If only a few parties have access to the source code, eg. some vendor

[coreboot] New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for coreboot

2021-02-23 Thread scan-admin--- via coreboot
Hi, Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to coreboot found with Coverity Scan. 3 new defect(s) introduced to coreboot found with Coverity Scan. New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan Showing 3 of 3 defect(s) ** CID 1447013: Memory - corruptions (OVERRUN)

[coreboot] Re: coreboot nvme support

2021-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 18.02.21 17:21, Claus Stenzel wrote: Hi, 1. Does coreboot support the nvme protocol? and Could you please tell a bit more about your use case ? Do you really need to boot off from nvme using the nvme protocol ? IMHO, many NVME's also speak ACHI protocol. All that coreboot really needs

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Christian Walter
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I am totally on your site that this is not an ideal solution - however the coreboot community has to think about how to work around these issues. Stating that this just does not get merged into the tree is not a good solution, as we are not moving forward on

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 09.02.21 13:14, Christian Walter wrote: Hi, As Arthur pointed out, we would hope to integrate this as a binary as a temporary solution, until Intel clears out the NDA issues. I really don't like this idea. As it's a special case for the time being, this can live in some extra branch,

[coreboot] what are requirements for coreboot IOMMU support?

2021-02-23 Thread ludphaeus via coreboot
Hi I am trying to port a Haswell laptop and I would want it to have IOMMU support. My chipset supports VT-d but CPU does not. The official info from Intel says the PC needs chipset, CPU and BIOS to support VT-d to use IOMMU. I think this is not true because I saw some boards in board status

[coreboot] Re: Intel CBnT tooling and dealing with NDA

2021-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 09.02.21 11:02, Arthur Heymans wrote: Hi, My question to the community is if it would be ok to allow for the build system integration code for KM and BPM generation to be integrated into the master branch before the code to the tooling is made public. Please define 'integration' and 'made