[U-Boot] Bare x86 support is merged to u-boot-x86

[Simon Glass]

+Bin

Hi Bruce,

On 1 December 2014 at 12:33,  <Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon and Bin,
>
> u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de wrote on 11/25/2014 01:51:06 PM:
>
>> From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> To: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>> Cc: "trini at ti.com" <trini at ti.com>
>> Date: 11/25/2014 01:52 PM
>> Subject: [U-Boot] Bare x86 support is merged to u-boot-x86
>> Sent by: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de
>>
>> Hi Bin (and others interested in U-Boot on x86),
>>
>> I've applied the remaining x86 patches to u-boot-x86. It runs on
>> chromebook_link (Pixel) with support for most hardware relevant to a
>> boot loader: SDRAM, SPI, PCI, USB (and USB Ethernet), SATA (internal
>> 32GB SSD), SD card, LCD, UART, keyboard, EC.
>>
>> Bin this should be a good base for you to send patches for your Atom
>> platform and I have no major work pending now so should not get in
>> your way.
>>
>> Instructions on how to build and run are here:
>>
>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/X86
>>
>> For this platform 4 binary blobs are needed. This is an unavoidable
>> feature of the platform at present. The blobs cover flash descriptor,
>> SDRAM init, video init and Management Engine. Instructions on how to
>> get these are on the same page.
>>
>> Here is a list of some missing features:
>>
>> - README.x86 in the source (mostly the content from the Wiki page
>> would be a good start)
>> - MTRR support (for performance)
>> - Audio
>> - Chrome OS verified boot (only a rough rebase has been done, I'm not
>> sure how to track mainline anyway)
>> - SMI and ACPI support, to provide platform info and facilities to Linux
>>
>
> This is awesome!  Thanks so much for the work you two have done on this.
> We've been using u-boot on our PPC platforms for years and love it.  We're
> considering moving to an Atom processor and wanted to continue to use
> u-boot, but were worried about getting it up and running with the FSL from
> Intel so we haven't made the jump yet.  This is going to be a huge leg up in
> my argument for actually getting that project off the ground.  If we do,
> I'll be sure to be pushing out any work we do that isn't in the mainline.
>
> Thanks again guys!

Sounds good! What Atom are you using? It might be the same one as Bin.

Regards,
Simon