Hi Bin, On 11 March 2016 at 00:48, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > > This series adds support for samus, the Chromebook Pixel 2015. Since it is > > only the second board added that does not use an FSP, there is quite a bit > > of refactoring involved to avoid code duplication. > > > > Samus uses roughly the same binary blobs as link, except now there is one > > more called the reference code binary. The only available binary for this > > is a coreboot 'rmodule' extracted from flash. This is a simplified ELF > > format so it fairly easy to load and use. > > > > It is also possible to boot U-Boot from coreboot on samus. This works well > > but for a delay for non-existent IDE on start-up. The standard build does > > not work with binaries taken from flash, so it isn't easy to replicate > > this - you'll just have to take my word for it. I am working on getting that > > figured out - coreboot recently gained upstream support for loading U-Boot > > as a payload, so it should be possible to get this working nicely before > > long. > > > > In any case much of the code comes from coreboot - individual files are > > credited with their source. > > > > Perhaps the main value of this series is the improved non-FSP support and > > additions for broadwell, which samus uses. It should make it easier to add > > support for future non-FSP platforms. > > > > I've applied 18 patches to u-boot-x86/next which don't have > inter-dependencies and buildman builds fine. Please rebase your future > patches on top of that. Thanks!
Thanks. Re the GPL-2 I cannot make some of these files GPL-2+ because they are marked GPL-2 in coreboot. In any case it seems that U-Boot is sticking with 2 so I don't think it matters. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
