[PATCH v4 0/9] x86: Improve support for chain-loading U-Boot

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:13 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This little series adds a few checks into the code to allow better
> operation when booting a build from a previous-state loader such as
> coreboot.
>
> At present we have a 'coreboot' target but this runs very different code
> from the bare-metal targets, such as coral. There is very little in common
> between them.
>
> It is useful to be able to boot the same U-Boot on a device, with or
> without a first-stage bootloader. For example, with chromebook_coral, it
> is helpful for testing to be able to boot the same U-Boot (complete with
> FSP) on bare metal and from coreboot. It allows checking of things like
> CPU speed, comparing registers, ACPI tables and the like.
>
> This series allows U-Boot to detect that it ran from coreboot and
> automatically do the right thing.
>
> This series makes the most important changes to allow the same u-boot.bin
> for coral to boot after coreboot (by itself) or bare metal (via TPL->SPL).
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Rename flag to GD_FLG_SKIP_LL_INIT
> - Add new patch to move coreboot-table detection into common code
> - Rename flag to GD_FLG_SKIP_LL_INIT
> - Split this patch into two
> - Update to use locate_coreboot_table()

v4 series applied to u-boot-x86/master, thanks!

Regards,
Bin