[coreboot] GSoC-2014 Coreboot project

[Allen Yan]

Hi, David,
   When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios
porting and fixing bug. There were four mainboards P5KPL-S, P5QL-E,
P5QL-SE, P5QL. All based on Intel platform and AMI Legacy BIOS Core
   In the second half year of 2008, I worked on pre-development of
EFI-BIOS for ASUS mainboard. I wrote a Dual bootblock module and added
NTFS support(read only) for AutoRecovery module using AMI Apito
platform (based on EFI).

Interesting experience, but memories will fade! Details can't be
remembered clearly.

>As Vladimir said, if the chipset is unsupported then writing MRC for it will be a very long and difficult process. If the chipset is supported then adding mainboard support may be a relatively simple task that not sufficient for GSoC.
 Do we need to write MRC by ourselves in coreboot? Isn't MRC code
supported by Intel?

>If you have experience with UEFI, perhaps you can implement features that are missing in our Tianocore support: http://www.coreboot.org/TianoCore .

Implementing UEFI CBFS driver and GOP driver are very clear goal.
questions: I don't know whether coreboot or some payload implement
common flash interface for flash programming software. If not, why?

>https://trello.com/b/pEdlwYTb/tiano-payload
It seems that Tiano payload is a very activity project. I think I can
try my best to implement one feature or twp for the project! Like use
a seperate Fv in CBFS as Fault Tolerant Variable Storage

Look forward to your kind advice!



On 3/20/14, David Hendricks <dhendrix at google.com> wrote:
> Hi Jinyi,
> Can you provide more details about your work as a BIOS engineer?
>
> As Vladimir said, if the chipset is unsupported then writing MRC for it
> will be a very long and difficult process. If the chipset is supported then
> adding mainboard support may be a relatively simple task that not
> sufficient for GSoC.
>
> If you have experience with UEFI, perhaps you can implement features that
> are missing in our Tianocore support: http://www.coreboot.org/TianoCore .
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Allen Yan <lexkde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am Jinyi Yan , a second year PhD candidate from Shanghai Institute
>> of Micro-system and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of
>> Sciences. I used to be a mainboard BIOS engineer in ASUS Technology
>> Suzhou Co., Ltd for about two years (2007.7~2009.2). My major now is
>> optoelectronics. But I have a lot of fun while programming, in my
>> heart the working experience of being a BIOS engineer is still very
>> exciting.
>> I think GsoC is a nice platform for me to participate the open source
>> community. When I search the GsoC projects and organizations, the
>> coreboot and flashrom projects are definitely the right choices for
>> me. I have a spare ASUS P5KPL PC at my hand, but the chipset is not in
>> the support list of coreboot project.
>> As Stefan Tauner's suggestion, maybe porting coreboot to new mainboard
>> or implementing advanced coreboot features on exsiting mainboards are
>> nice too.
>> Now I'm not very familiar with the program structure of coreboot, so I
>> expect your guidence and hope to contribute for coreboot and flashrom
>> even if my application is not accpeted.
>> Thanks! Look forward to your kind advice!
>> Regards,
>> Jinyi Yan
>>
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> David Hendricks (dhendrix)
> Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
>