[coreboot] GSoC 2009 deadlines

[Wang, Qingpei]

I think we can list all of the ideas together and  choose those which fit for the GSoc 2009.

Jason Wang
BeiJing Technology Development Center
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)


-----Original Message-----
From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org] On Behalf Of Niels Ole Salscheider
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:42 PM
To: coreboot at coreboot.org
Subject: Re: [coreboot] GSoC 2009 deadlines

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