Hi Bin, On 17 February 2016 at 18:06, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
What do you mean by distro configuration? Something else I wonder about is supporting grub's config file directly in U-Boot. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
