RFC: barebox-x86 as a coreboot payload

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On Apr 6, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Michel Stam <michel at reverze.net> wrote:

> Hello Antony,
> 
> Interesting idea- I wonder if its difficult given that U-boot is already supported?
> 
> Personally I have no experience with coreboot, the systems I test on are industrial x86 SBCs with their own BIOS. I suppose it is oossible, maybe we can borrow code from u-boot.
> 

Should be fairly easy

> Another thing along the sane lines that crossed my mind is EFI support for barebox, I wonder if theres interest in that?

EFI yes as ARM will use UEFI too

> 
> Next on my list is keyboard/VGA, maybe VESA support if I have the time. I would like to see a console, possibly a framebuffer driver. No idea how difficult that will be.
> 

good idea

> Cheers,
> 
> Michel Stam
> 
> 
>> On 5 apr. 2014, at 21:00, Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I have seen your recent activity on barebox-x86 improvements.
>> 
>> IMHO using barebox-x86 as a coreboot payload can be beneficial for barebox promotion.
>> 
>> Please see http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Antony Pavlov
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