Hi Isaac,
Thanks for the document. I've seen the main MinPlatform document before, which also outlines control flow, but this shows a quick overview of it all. I'll look for the MinPlatform porting training links too. Thanks.

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> I would also make sure that you have the board information you need. 
> Whatever datasheets and such that are required.
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> In addition to the Minimum Platform spec, I like to have the UEFI Spec and
> the UEFI Platform Initialization arch specs handy for reference.  ACPI
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> That gives you the HW and SW documents.  And you have mentors and the
> mailing list for a network of experts.  Those plus hardware and tools
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> and serial debug.
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I have the schematics, boardview and the datasheets that became relevant to porting (some I was unable to find, mainly regarding PCIe devices). While this board may have a working serial pad, it would be difficult to access and likely requires soldering (which I cannot do).

I planned to skip directly to stage 4 (OS), or at least 3 (shell). I should have the required board knowledge from my coreboot port. For debug logs, I think the serial port library which logs Status Codes (which will be stored in memory) could be a good fit. For early problems in PEI, I see there is a serial port library which logs to SPI flash. If these fail here, I'll have to hope the USB3 debugging feature will work.

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> I will defer to Nate on communication recommendations as all the GSoC
> projects will be working those out.  And I have to admit I didn’t read the
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Okay, not a problem.

Nice to meet you!

Best regards,
Benjamin Doron