[U-Boot] x86: ACPI support suggestion

Gabriel Huau contact at huau-gabriel.fr
Sat Feb 7 00:11:36 CET 2015


Hi Simon,

On 02/06/2015 03:04 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> On 6 February 2015 at 16:01, Gabriel Huau <contact at huau-gabriel.fr> wrote:
>> Hi Bin,
>>
>> Actually I was able to try with a quick&dirty code the integration of the
>> ACPI tables (aml files) and it doesn't seem to be possible.
>> The boot to Linux is working fine, all the ACPI tables are loaded correctly,
>> but the system is unstable and it seems to have some issue with the
>> interrupts handler.
>>
>> As debugging this kind of issues could be really tricky and involve also a
>> lot of modification, I think we are stuck to port the ACPI support from
>> coreboot to u-boot.
>>
>> I will try to work on a first draft and see how things look like.
> One thing to note is that U-Boot may not currently set up the PCI
> interrupts fully. Or perhaps the problem is that ACPI needs to match.
> What platform are you using?
>
> [snip]

MinnowBoard Max (BayTrail).

Actually, you may be right, I didn't check this part.



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