On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Udit Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Herring [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 8:18 PM
>> To: Udit Kumar <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Architecture Mailman List <[email protected]>;
>> [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Issue#9 Document hardware need (if any)
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Udit Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > At present, I don't see any specific hardware requirement for EBBR except
>> ARMv8  CPU. Current document covers it very well.
>>
>> You have to have block storage. Perhaps UEFI implies that. Boards like the 
>> CHIP
>> only have raw NAND and a USB connector by default. So is USB MS enough?
>
> Yes but such need is not must to have EBBR running.

I don't follow.

>> I think being explicit with h/w requirements implied by UEFI would be a good
>> thing. If I'm designing a board, I don't want to have to sort thru UEFI 
>> specs to
>> distill down a bullet list of h/w reqs.
>
> I like to cover here, all on/off chip components could be IP/peripherals 
> needed for EBBR.
> Like if USB is present, minimum version of xchi or echi needs to be supported 
> by hardware.

One look at XHCI or EHCI drivers and the variations across SoCs will
tell you that just specifying those specs is pointless. But it is
probably worth saying something about USB. Perhaps saying USB host
port(s) (more than 1?) required and the firmware must support booting
from USB.

Rob
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