Hi, On 27 November 2014 at 10:08, Joakim Tjernlund <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote on 2014/11/27 17:31:47: >> >> Hi Jocke, >> >> On 27 November 2014 at 00:59, Joakim Tjernlund >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Andy, >> >> >> >> On 25 November 2014 at 15:08, Andy Pont <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> > Hi Simon (and Bin), >> >> > >> >> >> I've applied the remaining x86 patches to u-boot-x86. It runs on >> >> >> chromebook_link (Pixel) with support for most hardware relevant to > a >> >> >> boot loader: SDRAM, SPI, PCI, USB (and USB Ethernet), SATA > (internal >> >> >> 32GB SSD), SD card, LCD, UART, keyboard, EC. >> >> >> >> >> >> Bin this should be a good base for you to send patches for your > Atom >> >> >> platform and I have no major work pending now so should not get in >> >> >> your way. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks for all of your efforts on getting some x86 support into >> > U-Boot. >> >> > Hopefully in the new year when project work is back under control I >> > will >> >> > have some time to get involved with this - I have almost 20 years >> > experience >> >> > porting commercial BIOS and UEFI solutions for x86 hardware and >> > possibly a >> >> > bunch of Atom C2750 hardware arriving in January. >> >> >> >> Sounds great! I do wonder whether U-Boot could support some UEFI >> > protocols. >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Other than the list of missing features, what are your long term >> >> > goals/ambitions/desires with x86 support in U-Boot? From what I > can >> > see on >> >> > the Coreboot mailing list it isn't the friendliest of people and >> > doesn't >> >> > seem to know how to deal with the binary blobs that both Intel and > AMD >> > seem >> >> > to mandate for their chipsets now. >> >> >> >> It would be nice to make x86 a first-class U-Boot citizen, meaning >> >> that it has a reasonable set of features as required by a reasonable >> >> set of modern boards. That means supporting a few more classes of >> >> chipsets. Then we get all the features that U-Boot has, hopefully >> >> without to much of the BIOS-era baggage that x86 often brings along >> >> (U-Boot is pretty simple to understand). I'm pretty happy that the >> >> current port fits well into the U-Boot philosophy. >> > >> > I would love to see Intel embedded Guthrie CRB design(No graphics and > 4 >> > GBE eth ports): >> > Processor: i7-4702EC >> > PCH: Cave Creek (DH8900CC) >> > >> > This will be our next board in not too distant future, we do not >> > have any x86 experience inhouse though :) >> > >> > Any chance this could be done? >> >> Maybe...do you have a link to Guthrie somewhere? I can't find it. If >> it is sandybridge? If so then it might be very similar to the existing >> support. > > I don't know Intel well yet but here is something to look at: > http://se.mouser.com/new/Intel/intel-i7-4700ec-4702ec/ > http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/612/intel-communications-chipset-89xx-series-datasheet-257583.pdf
Well I don't have one of those. If you send me one I might be able to do something - it looks interesting and seems to have good docs. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
