[U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,

On 17 February 2016 at 18:06, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

What do you mean by distro configuration?

Something else I wonder about is supporting grub's config file
directly in U-Boot.

Regards,
Simon