Last week Patrick Georgi posted a new entry to the coreboot blog.
There is support for 4 new boards: 2 Google boards, google/chell and google/lars, and 2 Asus boards, KFSN4-DRE and KGPE-D16. There were improvements to cbfstool, libpayload, superio and i2c chip drivers. The project has udpated their automated testing, and related code cleanup. There is a new lint tool for Kconfig files, see util/lint/kconfig_lint. It appears there is some fuzzing infrastructre being setup, including afl support! Some unmaintained, untested driver code was removed, and there is a maintainer-related script to help, see util/scripts/maintainers.go.
“The ongoing effort to support booting in long mode (64 bit) on AMD64 progressed by the integration of changes to make SMM handling and AMD chipset drivers 64bit clean.”
“Sandybridge now initializes CPUs serially for robustness reasons, and Intel FSP supports loading microcode from coreboot.”
“All related chipsets also saw significant improvements, of which the still ongoing effort to provide non-AGESA implementations for the Fam15h CPU, as well as a ton (metric, in case you’re curious) of bugfixes and feature developments (for example Suspend to RAM) for all AMD CPUs starting with K8 is particularly notable.”
Full blog post:
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