[U-Boot] [RESEND PATCH v4 0/12] x86: Better support of coreboot

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Jan 6 15:21:29 CET 2015


Hi Bin,

On 6 January 2015 at 07:14, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> In theory U-Boot built for coreboot is supposed to run as a payload
> to be loaded by coreboot on every board that coreboot supports.
> The U-Boot build process uses SYS_CONFIG_NAME and DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE
> which are hardcoded in board defconfig and Kconfig files. For better
> support of coreboot, we want to make these two options configurable
> so that we can easily change them during 'make menuconfig' so that
> the generated U-Boot image for coreboot is board configuration aware.
>
> Note v2/v3/v4 patch series aims to better support coreboot, while v1
> patch series just tried to resolve the issues seen on qemu. Several
> issues are fixed to make coreboot support in U-Boot more robust.
>
> See v1 patch discussion
> @ http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-January/200140.html
>
> The official qemu U-Boot support will come in the future. This patch
> series have been tested with coreboot running on qemu and Intel Crown
> Bay (my own unofficiall simple port, not in coreboot mainline) then
> loading the U-Boot built with the new mechanism.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Hide XIP_ROM_SIZE too after rebase
> - Rebase to u-boot-x86/next

I need to change XIP_ROM_SIZE to depend on X86_RESET_VECTOR also to
make this build for coreboot. Is that expected?

Regards,
Simon


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