[coreboot] Hardware donation for porting Coreboot / FlashROM

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sat May 14 10:48:16 CEST 2011


Corey Osgood wrote:
> >> Actually there is support for the CPU and chipset in coreboot (intel/sch)
> >
> > D'oh, I managed to confuse it! Of course you are right.
> >
> > A board port is what is needed; significantly less effort, but will
> > possibly still need to write new support for the EC, which often does
> > more things than usual within Atom systems.
> 
> Shouldn't be an EC, this is a nettop, not a netbook.

Nettop, but Atom does a bit more power management stuff than usual,
and there was (at least originally) no EC designed in that could
manage it in the reference schematics so every design has a different
one. (One is supposedly always needed.)


//Peter




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