[U-Boot] BayTrail FSP release v4

[Andrew Bradford]

Hi Bin,

On 07/30 16:10, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Andrew Bradford
> <andrew at bradfordembedded.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bin,
> >
> > On 07/16 18:47, Bin Meng wrote:
> >> Hi Simon, Andrew,
> >>
> >> Just noticed that Intel has released the FSP for BayTrail version 4.
> >>
> >> The release notes is at here:
> >> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/software/fsp/atom-e3800-fsp-g4-release-notes.html
> >>
> >> Like Andrew contacted Intel and got the message, that Intel does not
> >> plan to release an FSP spec v2 complaint FSP for BayTrail, which looks
> >> like so. The v4 version is still FSP spec v1 :(
> >>
> >> But we should consider update MinnowMax instructions to use v4?
> >
> > I think we should, especially as from the release notes it sounds like
> > disabling graphics is now an option which may make supporting E3805
> > targets more possible (hopefully?).  Maybe it boots faster now, too?
> >
> 
> Looks like the FSP v4 release for BayTrail has packaged a debug
> version of FSP binary, which prints lots of debug message to the
> serial console. This makes FSP debugging especially the DRAM
> initialization a lot easier as it is no longer a complete black box
> and when something goes wrong at least we know what's happening.
> Disabling graphics does not seem to boot faster, if you mean the FSP
> initialization time. But if you mean the VGA BIOS run time, we can
> disable that in the U-Boot configuration.
> 
> > I've been on vacation and now I'm backlogged with other tasks, so my FSP
> > configuration patch v3 will be delayed somewhat, but if we are planning
> > on moving to this v4 FSP release, I will take a look at if anything has
> > changed which would impact my FSP configuration patch and adjust as
> > needed before sending.
> >
> 
> Are you planning to spin the v3 soon? I am working on BayleyBay board
> which will use device tree for FSP configuration.

Sorry, I will start working on the v3 spin today and hope to send it out
early next week.

Thanks!
-Andrew