[coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

[ron minnich]

In the last few years I've argued for even 3! One to remain untouched, one
to hack, and one as the backup when you burn the hack one up :-)

ron


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> What he said. Ron you are very right here. The rules were one to use,
> and one to ,ah, hack.
>
> Now I freely admit all  I know about bringing Coreboot to the
> Chromebooks is what is discussed here. But I did indeed study and
> follow the earlier efforts, and doing these ports can be considered
> useful and even important.
>
> I for one would indeed want to buy a Chromebook wearing Coreboot and
> Haswell based.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As always, when doing a new board, get a system that is known to work
> with
> > coreboot and has your chipset in it. You should get several (never just
> > one!) of the haswell chromebooks, build coreboot, make sure you can make
> it
> > all work, then try the port to your board.
> >
> > ron
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, David Hendricks <
> david.hendricks at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Paul Wilcox-Baker <
> wilcoxbaker at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear coreboot,
> >>>
> >>> We are interested in coreboot for the Intel Haswell processors.
> >>> coreboot appears to be used in the Acer C720 and HP Chromebooks
> >>> that use Haswell processors.  I see no reference to this processor,
> >>> or to these products in the source code that I downloaded recently.
> >>
> >>
> >> Are you sure? 'git grep haswell' turns up 160 references as of 931c1d.
> >>
> >>
> >>> There is also no reference to these products in the "products
> >>> supported" web page of coreboot.org.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops
> >>
> >>>
> >>> We are developing hardware using the Haswell processor and 82C226
> >>> PCH part.  How do we port coreboot to these devices?  As Acer and HP
> >>> have done it, it's obviously possible.
> >>
> >>
> >> Start by grepping for NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_HASWELL in the source tree.
> >>
> >> Note: The following URL has a codename <--> marketing name decoder for
> >> Chromebooks:
> >>
> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices
> >>
> >>> Any advice gratefully received!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Paul.
> >>>
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> >>
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