[U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

I was referring to doc/README.distro.

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

And maybe installing distro from U-Boot?

Regards,
Bin