[coreboot] New post published at blog.coreboot.org on May 19, 2015 at 4:43 am

[Naman Govil]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Julius Werner <jwerner at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi Naman,
>
> > Presently, arm64 isn’t a supported architecture for coreboot in
> emulation, mainly due to the fact that the port we have runs in 32-bit for
> bootblock and romstage stages. I would work to re-structure this and get
> these stages running in 64-bit.
>
> Just wanted to make sure you know that we were also planning to rework
> the whole bootblock and romstage mess on ARM64 in the near future for
> a Chromium project. When you get to that part in your project please
> let me know what you're planning to do so we can avoid doing the same
> thing twice and stepping on each other's toes.
>
Sure.

>
> (Also, not sure if you know this already but we did use to have an
> emulation/foundation-armv8 port already that I think even somewhat
> booted as some point. It just fell into disrepair with latter changes
> but it might still be a useful starting point.)
>
I didn't know about this. I guess you mean :
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/coreboot/+/chromeos-2013.04/src/mainboard/emulation/foundation-armv8
Indeed, this would be helpful for a start.
Thanks!
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