[Debian-eeepc-devel] coreboot and the Eee PC (was: Re: 5 second boot)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear list,


Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2008, 18:14 +0100 schrieb Phil Endecott:

> I am curious to know if CoreBoot (aka LinuxBIOS) could make this 
> faster; but clearly the "low hanging fruit" at the moment is the later 
> stages, by using Arjan and Auke's work.

Coreboot [1] would be able to set up the hardware in some milliseconds,
so you would be right prompted to your boot loader in less then a
second.

Unfortunately coreboot has not been ported yet and it is unlikely that
it will be. Would have been easier with devices from for example AMD or
VIA, because they actually support the coreboot development with
ressources, documentation and developers.


Resources
==========
• support in flashrom [2]
• some info on what it takes to port coreboot [3]


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://www.coreboot.org/
[2] http://coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-April/033959.html
[3] http://hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail%2836%29
(look for Bring up coreboot v3 on an Asus eeepc)
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