[coreboot] Re: [RFC] Pre-Memory Sign-of-Life using Intel uGOP

2023-08-24 Thread Nico Huber
On 24.08.23 07:02, Martin Roth via coreboot wrote: > I don't like that idea, but as was said in the meeting today, coreboot is > willing to accept that, but on the condition that the source for the binary > (and future similar binaries) is made open. To show good faith Intel could > guarantee th

[coreboot] Re: 2023-08-23 - coreboot Leadership meeting minutes

2023-08-24 Thread Lean Sheng Tan
Hi Hannah, Personally I think it is not a good argument saying that "there are many blobs still being loaded by Coreboot and not all of these are Intel blobs, so why not allow another Intel blob to be merged" - as we always striving for a better solution, and I presume you heard the strong voice of

[coreboot] Re: 2023-08-23 - coreboot Leadership meeting minutes

2023-08-24 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Hannah, On 24.08.23 05:33, Williams, Hannah wrote: > We understand the hesitation to introduce one more binary blob in Coreboot. > We are not opposed to open sourcing (we did support libgfxinit for our > previous platforms). The Meteor Lake platform is at the final stages of > development an

[coreboot] [RFC] x86: Add .data section support for XIP pre-RAM stages

2023-08-24 Thread Compostella, Jeremy
Dear coreboot community, I am looking for feedback on the following topic. x86 Pre-memory stages do not support the `.data' section and as a result developers are required to include runtime initialization code instead of relying on C global variable definition. To illustrate the impact of this

[coreboot] Re: 2023-08-23 - coreboot Leadership meeting minutes

2023-08-24 Thread Williams, Hannah
Hi Sheng, Yes I will come back within the next few weeks on open sourcing uGOP. Hi Nico, I think your suggestion to use similar interface to libgfxinit (gma_gfxinit(), gma_gfxstop()) is a good idea. Please add your comments to the CLs and we will work on it. Regarding the MP PPI and the Kconfi