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authorPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2019-02-14 13:24:44 +0100
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2019-02-17 22:10:46 +0000
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Documentation: Add broader payload coverage to project ideas
A couple people discussed recently how it's a shame that on some architectures we can bring up a device but then have nothing to do with it afterwards. Having payloads to choose from would help a lot there. Change-Id: Ia66f22947d09afe3076cc2ee12f5b652fe80fc3a Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/31415 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz> Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
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### Mentors
* Werner Zeh <werner.zeh@gmx.net>
+
+## Port payloads to ARM, AArch64, MIPS or RISC-V
+While we have a rather big set of payloads for x86 based platforms, all other
+architectures are rather limited. Improve the situation by porting a payload
+to one of the platforms, for example GRUB2, U-Boot (the UI part), Tianocore,
+yabits, FILO, or Linux-as-Payload.
+
+Since this is a bit of a catch-all idea, an application to GSoC should pick a
+combination of payload and architecture to support.
+
+### Requirements
+* coreboot knowledge: Should know the general boot flow in coreboot
+* other knowledge: It helps to be familiar with the architecture you want to
+ work on.
+* hardware requirements: Much of this can be done in QEMU or other emulators,
+ but the ability to test on real hardware is a plus.
+
+### Mentors
+* Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> for U-Boot payload projects