[U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX

[Simon Glass]

+Bin

Hi Hans,

On 11 February 2016 at 08:44, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11-02-16 13:16, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Minnowboard is looking for GSoC projects this year.
>>
>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/GSoC2016
>>
>> There are a few things listed in README.x86 to be done. Any ideas?
>
>
> Maybe speed up USB port scan ? This really needs to be parallelized
> by using some for of cooperative multi-tasking.
>
> For starters just parallelizing the scanning of separate controllers
> in drivers/usb/host/usb-uclass.c: usb_init() by splitting
> usb_scan_bus() into a  usb_scan_bus_start() and usb_scan_bus_get_status()
> with the latter being called repeatedly until all busses are done
> would already help. Then do something similar for scanning all
> ports of a hub in "parallel", etc.

Yes that sounds good. There is a lot that could be done there. Are you
interested in mentoring a student?

Ideas I have are to port U-Boot to 64-bit, also enable the EFI image
support for x86 (for running grub). Or perhaps just support the grub
format.

Bin, do you have any thoughts?

Regards,
Simon