Hikey is a development board with HiSilicon Kirin 620 eight-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit SoC. The original firmware is based on Tianocore EDK II, and I'd like to port coreboot to this board.
Challenges:
- Learn about ARMv8 ISA, ARM TrustZone and ARM Trusted firmware
- Find out the key initialization code in the UEFI firmware
- Find the way to use the non-free blobs
Goal:
- Flash the firmware to the board and use of the serial console to debug
- Boot coreboot firmware
- Try to boot an operating system
This project is part of:
Hack Week 14
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over 7 years ago by algraf | Reply
There are no non-free blobs on the HiKey IIRC. You can build ATF, EDK2, U-boot, etc all from source code.
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over 7 years ago by vimacs | Reply
I've found these blobs: - Watch Dog Driver - Flash Driver - SnpPV600 - MCU
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over 7 years ago by a_faerber | Reply
Surely upstream U-Boot does not contain such blobs. Is there a reason you specifically want coreboot?
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over 7 years ago by vimacs | Reply
I just saw that u-boot supports this board, but it still needs the mcuimage.bin blob. The u-boot code base may be easier to understand than edk2, and the job can be easier.
I think what coreboot can do better than other firmware projects is that it can use many customized payloads, a mature and simplified code base, features like cbmem for debugging and logging, etc.
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