> > Hi Andy, > > On 25 November 2014 at 15:08, Andy Pont <andy.p...@sdcsystems.com> 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? Jocke _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot