[MinnowBoard] GSOC 2015 Aspirant for U-Boot EFI Support

[Simon Glass]

Hi Saket,

On 3 March 2015 at 19:45, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>           I guess now is the time for me to get started and dive deeper into
> the project.
>
> I am  familiar with U-Boot usage at the command level as well as compilation
> and deployment.
>
> I have tried to hack through u-boot in various ways in the past which
> include
>
> 1. Modifications in U-Boot’s initialization process, so that a custom
> board’s specific hardware is set up early enough
> 2. Adding support to specific hardware, by virtue of adding or modifying
> low-level drivers
> 3. Expanding the command interface to support a needed functionality,
> possibly as a front-end for new hardware
>
>
> I guess I have the minimal experience to get started with this project.
> Kindly guide me as to how to go ahead with reference to this project.

I've figured out the problem with my IRC so will be on
#minnowboard-gsoc from time to time.

I'll go through this in more detail and post something next week. In
the meantime it would be worth taking a look at the code for the
'bootm' command in U-Boot. You can start at cmd_bootm.c and work down
from there.

Regards,
Simon

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