+Bin Hi Bruce,
On 1 December 2014 at 12:33, <bruce_leon...@selinc.com> wrote: > Hi Simon and Bin, > > u-boot-boun...@lists.denx.de wrote on 11/25/2014 01:51:06 PM: > >> From: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> >> To: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de> >> Cc: "tr...@ti.com" <tr...@ti.com> >> Date: 11/25/2014 01:52 PM >> Subject: [U-Boot] Bare x86 support is merged to u-boot-x86 >> Sent by: u-boot-boun...@lists.denx.de >> >> Hi Bin (and others interested in U-Boot on x86), >> >> I've applied the remaining x86 patches to u-boot-x86. It runs on >> chromebook_link (Pixel) with support for most hardware relevant to a >> boot loader: SDRAM, SPI, PCI, USB (and USB Ethernet), SATA (internal >> 32GB SSD), SD card, LCD, UART, keyboard, EC. >> >> Bin this should be a good base for you to send patches for your Atom >> platform and I have no major work pending now so should not get in >> your way. >> >> Instructions on how to build and run are here: >> >> http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/X86 >> >> For this platform 4 binary blobs are needed. This is an unavoidable >> feature of the platform at present. The blobs cover flash descriptor, >> SDRAM init, video init and Management Engine. Instructions on how to >> get these are on the same page. >> >> Here is a list of some missing features: >> >> - README.x86 in the source (mostly the content from the Wiki page >> would be a good start) >> - MTRR support (for performance) >> - Audio >> - Chrome OS verified boot (only a rough rebase has been done, I'm not >> sure how to track mainline anyway) >> - SMI and ACPI support, to provide platform info and facilities to Linux >> > > This is awesome! Thanks so much for the work you two have done on this. > We've been using u-boot on our PPC platforms for years and love it. We're > considering moving to an Atom processor and wanted to continue to use > u-boot, but were worried about getting it up and running with the FSL from > Intel so we haven't made the jump yet. This is going to be a huge leg up in > my argument for actually getting that project off the ground. If we do, > I'll be sure to be pushing out any work we do that isn't in the mainline. > > Thanks again guys! Sounds good! What Atom are you using? It might be the same one as Bin. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
