[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/69] x86: Add support for samus

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 08:48:29 CET 2016


Hi Simon,

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> This series adds support for samus, the Chromebook Pixel 2015. Since it is
> only the second board added that does not use an FSP, there is quite a bit
> of refactoring involved to avoid code duplication.
>
> Samus uses roughly the same binary blobs as link, except now there is one
> more called the reference code binary. The only available binary for this
> is a coreboot 'rmodule' extracted from flash. This is a simplified ELF
> format so it fairly easy to load and use.
>
> It is also possible to boot U-Boot from coreboot on samus. This works well
> but for a delay for non-existent IDE on start-up. The standard build does
> not work with binaries taken from flash, so it isn't easy to replicate
> this - you'll just have to take my word for it. I am working on getting that
> figured out - coreboot recently gained upstream support for loading U-Boot
> as a payload, so it should be possible to get this working nicely before
> long.
>
> In any case much of the code comes from coreboot - individual files are
> credited with their source.
>
> Perhaps the main value of this series is the improved non-FSP support and
> additions for broadwell, which samus uses. It should make it easier to add
> support for future non-FSP platforms.
>

I've applied 18 patches to u-boot-x86/next which don't have
inter-dependencies and buildman builds fine. Please rebase your future
patches on top of that. Thanks!

Regards,
Bin


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