[PATCH v2 0/4] x86: Improve support for chain-loading U-Boot

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Feb 20 04:04:59 CET 2020


Hi Andy,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 02:37, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:46 AM 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.
> >
> > The idea is to change ll_boot_init() to false, and rebuild without changing
> > anything else.
> >
> > This series makes the most important changes to allow coral to boot on
> > coreboot.
>
> Is there any patchwork instance or branch which I may use for testing?

Yes I always push to u-boot-dm before sending.

This one is in branch cor3chain-working

It will be collected into patchwork automatically, normally a few
minutes after sending.

Regards,
Simon


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