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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-05-10 12:32:02 +0100
committerFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-05-10 12:32:02 +0100
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docs/tasks.html: Remove pointless tasks (2)
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@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@
</li>
<li>
Sound (internal speaker) worked on the T500, but stopped after all subsequent boots.
- (might just be this machine). investigate. (external speaker works)
+ (might just be this system). investigate. (external speaker works)
+ - probably because it uses a different hda_verb
</li>
<li>
tty0_ in #libreboot got tablet functions on X200T to work. Wait for it to land in gerrit
@@ -230,15 +231,6 @@
pehjota says that once the port is done, prokit can be modified to generate the entire
distribution as a vmlinuz and initrd.img file.
</li>
- <li>
- Related to MemTest86+:
- <ul>
- <li>
- Todo: modify memtest86+ to work with libpayload (coreboot framebuffer) and delete all the text-mode ROM images.
- See <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/17">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/17</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
</ul>
<h3>Build system</h3>
@@ -288,26 +280,14 @@
That script is buggy, and full of ugly hacks anyway,
so re-write it and make it modular/portable this time.
</li>
- <li>
- Reduce the size of libreboot releases.
- See <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/19">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/19</a>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Proposal: unify ROM images (don't duplicate).
- See <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/20">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/20</a>.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>Make GRUB build using coreboot's own crossgcc toolchain</li>
</ul>
<h3>Improvements to the utilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>
- Stop deleting flash chip definitions in flashrom. Instead, modify flashrom to accept a list
- of known flash chips, provided by a text file or naming them on the argument (eg --flashchips &quot;chip 1&quot; &quot;chip 2&quot;),
- where flashrom would ignore any detected flash chips that are not on the list. Make
- the flashing scripts use it, by default.
+ Stop deleting flash chip definitions in flashrom. Instead, modify flashrom to ignore
+ a list of chip definitions. This is a much cleaner solution. (add an option to override
+ the ignore).
</li>
<li>
Make ich9gen/ich9deblob portable. They both rely extensively on bitfields, and they assume
@@ -428,15 +408,11 @@
</b>
</li>
<li>
- Add cubieboard SPI flashing instructions to libreboot.
- <a href="https://github.com/mrnuke/coreboot/commits/cubie_mmc?author=mrnuke">mrnuke's github page with patches</a>. mrnuke in IRC knows
- about the cubieboard
- </li>
- <li>
LUKS key in initramfs: Add Trisquel documentation for docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html.
See <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/39">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/39</a>
</li>
<li>
+ PLCC flashing guide is needed:
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/07/vultureprog_shuttle_sbs.jpg">image</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/08/vultureprog_probing.jpg">image</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/06/superboosted2.jpg">image</a> -
@@ -463,6 +439,7 @@
with libreboot support (out of the box, from the factory).</b>
</li>
<li>
+ PROPOSAL (only a proposal, for now):
Look into the possibility of expanding libreboot to support non-coreboot systems. (u-boot, for instance).
Currently, libreboot presents itself as a deblobbed coreboot distribution. There are other systems out there
that use other firmware, such as u-boot, which libreboot could theoretically support. This would mean that
@@ -479,7 +456,7 @@
</ul>
</li>
<li>
- Set up a routine (project-wise) for testing each machine with the latest kernel version.
+ Set up a routine (project-wise) for testing each system with the latest kernel version.
See <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/22">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/22</a>
and <a href="http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/21">http://projects.mtjm.eu/work_packages/21</a>
</li>