[U-Boot] Please pull u-boot-x86

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 16:32 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:

+Cc: Ferry (he might be interested in this thread)

> > Edison?! Edison is dead (end), as I know it...

Some people don't think so, there are ones who like the board.

Actually, while working for Linux kernel at Intel I'm using that board
on almost daily basis to do many tests which are not related strictly to
Edison or even Tangier.

> >  The project is cancelled.

That's correct [1].

But be honest, don't you like the idea to have an example of the board,
which was never designed to be ACPI compatible, actually to become one
(as much as hardware and ACPI specification allow to, of course)?

Besides that I have started looking into Edison's stuff around spring
time of 2015. You may see my progress here [2] (first article dated
27.03.2015, the chapter "6 What is working and what doesn't" shows
progress of upstreaming). U-Boot was appeared on my radar when the stock
one stopped working with vanilla kernels.

> > Correct me if I am wrong!

See above.

> I don't know that story. Loop Andy in to comment.

Thanks, Bin, for including me in the loop.

>  But my understanding
> is that these are pretty much Intel Tangier SoC related,

...and Merrifield as a platform, which had been used in some x86-based
phones.

>  and Edison is
> just a reference board.

Edison is one of the Intel's IoT boards, but the only board from Intel
MID family [3].

> > Much more important INTEL U-Boot businesses are ATOM E3900/APL-I
> > family and
> > CORE-5 BDW-DE (possible also BDW-DE NS),
> > 
> > What about these?

I can't answer on this. Work on Edison stuff may be considered as my
hobby project (I have never been a part of an official team which had
done Edison).

[1]: https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-112093
[2]: https://edison.internet-share.com/wiki/Using_a_vanilla_Linux_kernel
_with_Intel_Edison
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Internet_device#Intel_MID_plat
forms

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy