+Bin Hi Hans,
On 11 February 2016 at 08:44, Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11-02-16 13:16, Simon Glass wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Minnowboard is looking for GSoC projects this year. >> >> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/GSoC2016 >> >> There are a few things listed in README.x86 to be done. Any ideas? > > > Maybe speed up USB port scan ? This really needs to be parallelized > by using some for of cooperative multi-tasking. > > For starters just parallelizing the scanning of separate controllers > in drivers/usb/host/usb-uclass.c: usb_init() by splitting > usb_scan_bus() into a usb_scan_bus_start() and usb_scan_bus_get_status() > with the latter being called repeatedly until all busses are done > would already help. Then do something similar for scanning all > ports of a hub in "parallel", etc. Yes that sounds good. There is a lot that could be done there. Are you interested in mentoring a student? Ideas I have are to port U-Boot to 64-bit, also enable the EFI image support for x86 (for running grub). Or perhaps just support the grub format. Bin, do you have any thoughts? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
