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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Jan 6 15:40:41 CET 2015


Hi Bin,

On 6 January 2015 at 07:35, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Yes, really sorry about that. I've resent a v4 patch just now. See
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/425685/

OK thanks - it seems to work. I've pushed the series to x86/testing
and will pull it in later on after I've done a full build.

Regards,
Simon


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