[coreboot] GSoC 2009 deadlines

Niels Ole Salscheider niels_ole at salscheider-online.de
Wed Mar 11 10:42:04 CET 2009


Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2009 04:32:15 schrieb Joseph Smith:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:50:26 +0100, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
>
> wrote:
> > On 10.03.2009 20:16 Uhr, Joseph Smith wrote:
> >> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:50:34 +0100, Stefan Reinauer
> >
> > <stepan at coresystems.de>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 10.03.2009 16:02 Uhr, ron minnich wrote:
> >>>> The project I'd like to see is AVATT v. 2 -- get it on real hardware.
> >>>>
> >>>> AVATT is a virtual machine in flash. kernel + kvm + coreboot.
> >>>
> >>> I have two more ideas:
> >>>
> >>> - vga option rom for geode LX (same as last year, didn't get done due
> >>> too few students assigned to us)
> >>> - storage option rom for usb boot in seabios. (I started this already,
> >>> but I am not sure if I can finish it)
> >>
> >> I like these :-)
> >>
> >> What about a filo read/write on-flash file system (1 block would be
> >
> > plenty)
> >
> >> to store filo.conf for filo 1.0??
> >
> > Very good plan, too.
>
> Actually it would be better to make the read/write on-flash file system
> part of libpayload so any payload can use it.

It might be useful if we could make such a file system accessible from Linux, 
too. Could we extend flashrom so that it can mount this filesystem via fuse?

Ole
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