[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/20] x86: Add CPU uclass and multi-core support for Minnowboard MAX

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> This series adds a new CPU uclass which is intended to be useful on any
>> architecture. So far it has a very simple interface and a command to show
>> CPU details.
>>
>> This series also introduces multi-core init for x86. It is implemented and
>> enabled on Minnowboard MAX, a single/dual-core Atom board. The CPU uclass is
>> implemented for x86 and the Simple Firmware Interface provides these details
>> to the kernel, since ACPI is not yet available.
>>
>> With these changes Minnowboard MAX can boot into Linux with both cores
>> enabled.
>>
>> This series is available at u-boot-x86 branch 'cpu-working'.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Use capitals for the header guard
>> - Change 'print' to 'Print' in comment
>> - Correct bugs in number output
>> - Change header guard to capital letters
>> - Change get_info() in function comment to cpu_get_info()
>> - Rename CONFIG_SFI to CONFIG_GENERATE_SFI_TABLE and move within Kconfig
>> - Correct Kconfig help indentation and text
>> - Drop SFI_BASE config option
>> - Always build sfi.o
>> - Use SFI_TABLE_MAX_ENTRIES instead of 16 and ARRAY_SIZE()
>> - Make get_entry_start() static
>> - Use table_compute_checksum() to computer checksum
>> - Add a few blank lines
>> - Move patch to after the CPU uclass patch
>> - Drop the RTC table as it is not needed
>> - Move SFI calling code to write_tables()
>> - Remove IDLE table
>> - Remove SFI_SYST_SEARCH_BEGIN and SFI_SYST_SEARCH_END
>> - Move '__packed' to immediately after 'struct'
>> - Add SFI_DEV_TYPE_SD and convert to enum
>> - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_SFI from hedaer file
>> - Move sfi.h header file to arch/x86/include/asm
>> - Remove unnecessary \t\n after mfence assembler instruction
>>
>
> This is quick! :) I have not finished reviewing the v1. I will
> continue reviewing the v2.
>
>> Simon Glass (20):
>>   Fix comment nits in board_f.c
>>   dm: core: Add a function to bind a driver for a device tree node

I've finished the review of this patch series, except this dm core
one. I think maybe someone else who is more familiar with the dm
internals than me could have a look. Thanks for working on these
patches. It's really great we can boot an SMP kernel.

[snip]

Regards,
Bin