Hi Stefan, On 7 March 2016 at 04:56, Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> wrote: > Hi Simon, Hi Hans, > > On 17.02.2016 17:35, Simon Glass 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? > > > Just to inform you, so that we don't work on this with multiple people > at the same time and waist resources. I'm currently working on this USB > scan speedup. I suspect to have something ready to publish latest by > end of this week.
Thanks for letting us know, sounds good! Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
