[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Improve support for chain-loading U-Boot

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Wed Mar 11 13:09:16 CET 2020


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:28:29PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 08:51, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 04:22:13PM -0700, Simon Glass 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).
> >
> > I see only this and one patch out of 7 (seven?).
> > Please, (re)send it correctly.
> 
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It doesn't matter if you want people to pay an attention (by putting them to Cc
list), so, since it was one patch I can't see the rest and know if they affect
or not the one, you Cc'ed me to.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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