[U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> +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?
>

What about enable distro configuration for x86? If there are
limitations due to ACPI on Minnowmax, maybe we can switch to QEMU
instead?

Regards,
Bin