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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a coreboot-compatible motherboard ?

• hugelgupf 9y ago
  You do not. Take a look at Ron's talk here: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.pdf https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...
• wmf 9y ago
  No, basically they're taking a vendor-provided UEFI image and stripping out the 90% that they don't want and replacing it with Linux. This is for people who can't afford to port coreboot to their motherboard.
• ganshun 9y ago
  Actually no. We've demonstrated this on boards without using coreboot support such as OCP's Winterfell machine. The reason is that we're inserting the Linux kernel in UEFI's DXE stage, whereas cpu init such as memory training are still handled by UEFI's PEI stage. From the perspective of UEFI, the Linux kernel is just another DXE to execute.
  • chris_wot 9y ago
    Is there a document that does a decent job of explaining how UEFI works?
    • ganshun 9y ago
      You could try this: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UEFI-EDKII-Learning-Dev https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UEFI-E... I don't know of any easily digestible document though.
      • chris_wot 9y ago
        Thanks!