Hi Graeme, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Graeme Russ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Simon Glass <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Graeme, >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Graeme Russ <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Simon, >>> >>> On Oct 23, 2012 4:42 PM, "Simon Glass" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Graeme, >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Graeme Russ <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi Simon, >>>> > > > [snip] > >>>> > I plan on doing dev work on a AMD E350 based board 'soon'. The E350 is >>>> > already supported by coreboot, so I'm planning on getting coreboot >>>> > ported for this board and then run U-Boot from coreboot. So we can no >>>> > longer assume all coreboot boards will be Intel based. >>>> >>>> Sounds good! Shall we rename coreboot.h to something like >>>> chromebook-x86.h? >>> >>> Even better would be to use the model name (which I assume would make the >>> x86 tag redundant) >> >> Well, the model is very device-specific. So far as U-Boot cares all >> the models are basically the same. What differences there are are >> taken care of by device tree differences. This is try on ARM for >> machines which share the some SOC, and true for basically all x86 >> platforms. > > Key words: "So far" :) - If all the x86 chromebooks are essentially the > same as far as U-Boot is concerned, then chromebook-x86.h will be fine.
OK > > I assume the plan is to create a common U-Boot binary with drivers for all > supported chromebook hardware and use the device tree (initially built by > passing coreboot tables, but maybe one day in the future passed by > coreboot) to determine which drivers to initialise? The device tree would > then be further fleshed out by U-Boot and passed to the Linux kernel? Yes that's right, except that we don't currently pass an fdt to the kernel. I suspect we will start doing this at some point. Regards, Simon > > Regards, > > Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
