[Arm-netbook] Libreboot and EOMA68

[Russell Hyer]

I mean: minifree.org - that's where I have my thinkpad / libreboot
from - and the guy I emailed last week

On 22/08/2016, Russell Hyer <russell.hyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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