[Arm-netbook] Libreboot and EOMA68

[Russell Hyer]

Neat, I emailed the guy behind libreboot thinkpads in the UK (and this
message tallies with that,though I didn't comment as to ARM libreboot
changes) that he should support the campaign.

Russell
for my sins, doing dev work on an apple mac :)

On 22/08/2016, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.cat> wrote:
> El Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:55:18PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
>> ---
>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.cat>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I asked the same in coreboot list years ago when they started to port
>> > coreboot to ARM. I hardly remember but the point might have been to
>> > enable UEFI (both for functionality and possibly peripheral
>> > initialisation),
>>
>>  UEFI is extremely rare in the ARM world - the only SoC i know of that
>> implements it is the iMX6.
>>
>
> Maybe the ARM chromebooks use UEFI, I don't remember.
>
> Anyway, some ARM boards start to take PCI peripherals, and then you have to
> enumerate, allocate resources, initialise, run option ROMs (hopefully
> optional
> or free, but often not)... Coreboot already had this kind of stuff done.
> I don't know if with u-boot you could attach a sata controller to the PCI
> port of an ARM board and boot from a sata disk attached to that controller.
>
> Things like this, I think. But I don't really remember well.
>
>
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