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flashrom: Which hardware do you want supported?

flashrom is growing rapidly and we are constantly adding support for new SATA/PATA controllers, network cards, graphics cards, USB devices, JTAG cables, DIY hardware hacks, desktop/server mainboards and even some laptops.

If you own a piece of hardware which has a flash chip and lives in a PC (embedded devices with NAND flash are already covered by other software), and if you want to reflash that piece of hardware, please comment here (with some info on how to reach you) or mail us at flashrom@flashrom.org. We will use this to prioritize support for hardware people are interested in.

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Getting TianoCore to work well as a coreboot payload

Hi! My name’s Robert Austin, and my GSoC 2010 project is to get TianoCore working well as a coreboot payload. TianoCore is the open source component of Intel’s implementation of UEFI. TianoCore on it’s own is not a BIOS replacement, but it can do some interesting things, and since a quite a few large companies are already committed to EFI, it makes sense to have an EFI payload as an option in coreboot.

I am very excited about working on this project, and working with the coreboot community. I will make regular announcements about my progress here on this blog, and I will keep my working code available in a git repository here. There isn’t anything there yet, but there will be soon. To anyone who happens to checkout my code during the summer, I welcome any comments or suggestions relating to the style or quality of my code. I want to write high-quality code, so feedback is appreciated.