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diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md index 2e43871149..63cc62f361 100644 --- a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md +++ b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md @@ -110,3 +110,32 @@ combination of payload and architecture to support. ### Mentors * Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> for U-Boot payload projects + +## Fully support building coreboot with the Clang compiler +Most coreboot code is written in C, and it would be useful to support +a second compiler suite in addition to gcc. Clang is another popular +compiler suite and the build system generally supports building coreboot +with it, but firmware is a rather special situation and we need to +adjust coreboot and Clang some more to get usable binaries out of that +combination. + +The goal would be to get the emulation targets to boot reliably first, +but also to support real hardware. If you don't have hardware around, +you likely will find willing testers for devices they own and work from +their bug reports. + +### Requirements +* coreboot knowledge: Have a general concept of the build system +* Clang knowledge: It may be necessary to apply minor modifications to Clang + itself, but at least there will be Clang-specific compiler options etc to + adapt, so some idea how compilers work and how to modify their behavior is + helpful. +* hardware requirements: If you have your own hardware that is already + supported by coreboot that can be a good test target, but you will debug + other people's hardware, too. +* debugging experience: It helps if you know how to get the most out of a bug + report, generate theories, build patches to test them and figure out what's + going on from the resulting logs. + +### Mentors +* Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software> |