[U-Boot] [PATCH 000/126] x86: Add initial support for apollolake

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 12:34:32 UTC 2019


Hi Simon,

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 10:15 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bin,
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 08:58, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Apollolake is an Intel SoC generation aimed at relatively low-end embedded
> > systems. It was released in 2016 but has become more popular recently with
> > some embedded boards using it.
> >
> > This series adds support for apollolake. As an example it adds an
> > implementation of chromebook_coral (a large range of Chromebooks released
> > in 2017).
> >
> > The series provides only enough to boot to a prompt. It does not include
> > display, storage, USB, etc. But it does include the major part of the
> > plumbing.
> >
> > Since this is the first time U-Boot has used FSP2 there is quite a bit of
> > refactoring needed. Some of this is in previous series, but much of it is
> > here.
> >
> > Some further clean-up is needed with this series and it needs more
> > documentation, but it is ready for review.
> >
> > This series is available at u-boot-dm/coral-working
>
> Just a note on this series. I sent it out as it was already getting
> huge and I don't like sitting on so many patches.
>
> I have since done a little more work and have more peripherals running
> as well as FSP-S. In doing so I've found some clean-ups in the FSP
> parts, moving apollolake-specific code out of the fsp/ directory where
> it ended up, for example.
>
> This results in another 20 patches or so :-(
>
> The first 45 patches in *this* are not specific to x86 so I am
> thinking of dealing with them separately.
>
> So my plan is:
>
> 1. Get the sandbox/dm patches reviewed and applied
> 2. Tidy up the remaining series
> 3. Add the new patches
> 4. Resend
>

Sounds like a good plan.

I will start reviewing the patches, and apply the patches as many as
possible, to save some efforts of resending such a huge patch series.

> I am on holiday for a week so will get to this on the 12th or so.

Regards,
Bin


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