[PATCH 2/4] coreboot: Add support for detecting Coreboot BIOS signatures

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Sun Dec 25 14:58:55 EST 2011


On 12/18/11 2:46 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 13:46 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> Add support for Coreboot BIOS detection. This in turn can be used by
>> platform drivers to verify they are running on the correct hardware,
>> as many of the low-volume SBC's (especially in the Atom and Geode
>> universe) don't always identify themselves via DMI or PCI-ID.
> It's Coreboot. So doesn't that mean we can just fix it to pass a
> device-tree to the kernel properly?
>
> Don't we only need this kind of hack for boards with crappy
> closed-source firmware?
>

I will try to get Coreboot to build and load on a 6F2 once I get an LPC de-bricking card from Netgate.

Patrick suggested that the 2D3 image might also work on the 6F2.

-Philip




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