Hi Simon, On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi Bin, > > On 23 December 2014 at 22:06, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right now all dts files under arch/x86/dts are compiled. This is >> not necessary so update the Makefile to only compile dts file for >> a specific board. > > I'd rather that we go the other way - making the boards more common. > If I can get the Minnowmax spun up I am going to try to unify the > support such that we can build an image that will boot on all the x86 > boards. This would require: > > - a set of operations and data provided by each board (how to do CAR, > whether to use FSP, how to detect the board, etc.) > - allowing a board config to enable multiple arch types, like > ivybridge and atom, for example > - allow multiple device trees, FSPs, microcodes, etc. to reside in the image > > One benefit is easier programming, if we can have an image that is > common to many boards - we don't need to worry so much about breaking > a different board if most things are common. Also we retain the option > to build just for a single target. > > I feel that if we get the structure for this in place now, it will be > relatively easy to build on, whereas trying to retrofit it later would > be too hard. >
The idea of making the boards support more common sounds good to me. We will see how far we can go. Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
