[U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stefan,

On 7 March 2016 at 04:56, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Simon, Hi Hans,
>
> On 17.02.2016 17:35, Simon Glass 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?
>
>
> Just to inform you, so that we don't work on this with multiple people
> at the same time and waist resources. I'm currently working on this USB
> scan speedup. I suspect to have something ready to publish latest by
> end of this week.

Thanks for letting us know, sounds good!

Regards,
Simon