Hi, What are Google's and Intel's plan on migrating to a stable UEFI payload on x86 coreboot ?
On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 10:15 +0100, Nico Huber wrote: > Hi, > > On 13.02.19 09:45, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > > With UEFI the defactor standard it seems reasonable to improve the > > tianocore payload integration. > > I agree that UEFI may seem ubiquitous (we've slept too long, never > pro- > vided an alternative), but why should we focus on tianocore? > > Tianocore isn't the only UEFI implementation. There is Yabits and, > IIRC, > somebody was working on a Boot-Services implementation for Linux > (don't > know the state of it, though). So why not put the effort into > something > that benefits our infrastructure more? Yabits uses libpayload, afaik. > Would be nice to have more payloads upstream that use it. And if > core- > boot developers would put as much effort into Yabits as they put into > merely getting tiano to compile, it would likely flourish much > better. > There's yabits as payload integration in coreboot already. Yabits didn't receive updates in the last few month. Looking at the code base it's more a Proof-of-Concept. > > A good candiate is [1], as it's maintained, has bug-fixes and > > features > > upstream tianocore doesn't provide, and it's known to work with > > coreboot out of the box. > > Agreed. We don't even have to switch the upstream repo btw. In git, > it's > as easy as `git fetch https://github.com/MrChromebox/edk2 fbgop` > instead > of the current "stable" reference. > > IIRC, we currently try to apply the local patches to any ref. As > that's > never supposed to work, we should only apply them if "stable" is > selec- > ted. Or get rid of the current "stable" altogether. > I'll prepare a patch on gerrit. > Nico > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/MrChromebox/edk2 > > -- Patrick Rudolph 9elements Agency GmbH, Kortumstraße 19-21, 44787 Bochum, Germany Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 234 68 94 188 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bochum Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bochum, HRB 17519 Geschäftsführung: Sebastian Deutsch, Daniel Hoelzgen _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
