<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Zoran,<br><br></div>my intention was just to do some experiements with coreboot - and haswell was the most interessting platform for me.<br><br></div>looks like i have to wait until intel allows release of mrc.bin or use some other platform.<br>
<br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>Karl<br><div><div><div><br><br><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/9/17 Stojsavljevic, Zoran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zoran.stojsavljevic@intel.com" target="_blank">zoran.stojsavljevic@intel.com</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hello Karl-Heinz,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I am not sure what is your scenario here. If you are attempting to bring HSW to grub, and then to Linux, Coreboot is not required, as far as you are using classical
EFI BIOS or new UEFI BIOS (AMI, Phoenix, Insyde).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">As my best understanding is, mrc.bin was released by Google in the best effort to support minimalistic approach (mrc.bin equivalent to x-loader) with Coreboot
SNB (I guess, applies for IVB as well) support (Google did created mrc.bin with some internal INTEL group support). All these are now called Firmware Support Packages (FSPs), and they have locked IPs, sole property of INTEL. Please, read the following, widely
available on INTEL external web site:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.intel.com/fsp" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/fsp</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/training/intel-firmware-support-package-technical-training.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/training/intel-firmware-support-package-technical-training.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I am not sure about HSW FSP roadmap, I think HSW FSP is officially not released yet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Zoran<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Most of The Time you should be “intel inside” to be capable to think “out of the box”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org" target="_blank">coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org" target="_blank">coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karl-Heinz Nirschl<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:coreboot@coreboot.org" target="_blank">coreboot@coreboot.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [coreboot] Coreboot Haswell Support<u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="im">
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<p>Hi List,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>There seems to be some support for intel haswell platform in coreboot. But i can not find the neccessary systemagent / mrb.bin binary. Isnt it released yet?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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