Hi Simon, On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > 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? >
I was referring to doc/README.distro. > Something else I wonder about is supporting grub's config file > directly in U-Boot. > And maybe installing distro from U-Boot? Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
