[U-Boot] Next for x86?

[Simon Glass]

Hi Saket,

On 25 November 2015 at 10:07, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Two biggest feature gaps so far are complete ACPI support, and SMM
>>> support. ACPI is pretty much a must-have if we want power management
>>> feature in the OS. F).
>>>
>>> ACPI support seems to be a must if we want to support booting Windows,
>>> also we may need help from SeaBIOS (chain-loaded from U-Boot).
>>
>> Yes we should try to get that finished. It seems pretty close at least
>> on qemu and minnowboard max.
>>
>
> I have been going through the PCI emulation driver of QEMU as to
> understand the BAR entries errors we are getting on the current qemu
> support.
>
> I hope to fix it for QEMU soon and would be sharing with Bin and
> yourself, my findings(and patches soon).
>
> For Minnowmax, apart from the PCI configuration errors(that we get
> similar to QEMU), the power management via the API needs to work too
> so that may take some more time.

OK that sounds good! I look forward to your update.

Regards,
Simon