Hi Simon, On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > +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? >
What about enable distro configuration for x86? If there are limitations due to ACPI on Minnowmax, maybe we can switch to QEMU instead? Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
