[U-Boot] MinnowBoard Max uboot

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 10 March 2015 at 05:24, Beaman, Thomas <Thomas.Beaman at xerox.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Do you know what will be the timeframe of when someone may be able to look at this in more detail. I will be able to help test any updates if needed
>

I will take a look once I have things lined up for the next release,
likely mid April.

Regards,
Simon

> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sjg at google.com [mailto:sjg at google.com] On Behalf Of Simon Glass
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 11:49 AM
> To: Beaman, Thomas
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Bin Meng; gabriel huau
> Subject: Re: MinnowBoard Max uboot
>
> +Bin and Gabriel
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 9 March 2015 at 08:08, Beaman, Thomas <Thomas.Beaman at xerox.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>>
>>
>> I see you have put support for the MinnowBoard Max in the u-boot mainline.
>> Thanks this is a very useful addition.  I have been able to follow
>> your readme and build a working bare metal uboot. Using the built
>> uboot I can load and bring up a Linux Kernel.
>>
>>
>>
>> What I noticed from the running kernel is that only one of the two
>> cores on the E3825 is running. In the power PC uboots I usually see a
>> section for the multiple cores in the .dts file. My questions is how
>> do I get both CPUs running on this board. Is it a uboot .dts file
>> setup that will enable this, or is something in the kernel start up that does this.
>>
>>
>>
>> As a test I boot the same kernel using the EFI BIOS on the minnow
>> board and both CPUs are running.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions or comments you have would be welcomed.
>>
>>
>
> My guess is that the LAPIC CPU start-up is missing. It isn't 100% clear what the FSP does and does not do, but perhaps it does not do that.
>
> I did make something of a start on this with ivybridge but it isn't complete, and it seems to be needed here.
>
> Regards,
> Simon