From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Roese Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:56:35 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] GSoC projects for Minnowboard MAX In-Reply-To: References: <56BCAC73.7000205@redhat.com> Message-ID: <56DD6C73.3060304@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Simon, Hi Hans, On 17.02.2016 17:35, Simon Glass wrote: > +Bin > > Hi Hans, > > On 11 February 2016 at 08:44, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 11-02-16 13:16, Simon Glass wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Minnowboard is looking for GSoC projects this year. >>> >>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/GSoC2016 >>> >>> There are a few things listed in README.x86 to be done. Any ideas? >> >> >> Maybe speed up USB port scan ? This really needs to be parallelized >> by using some for of cooperative multi-tasking. >> >> For starters just parallelizing the scanning of separate controllers >> in drivers/usb/host/usb-uclass.c: usb_init() by splitting >> usb_scan_bus() into a usb_scan_bus_start() and usb_scan_bus_get_status() >> with the latter being called repeatedly until all busses are done >> would already help. Then do something similar for scanning all >> ports of a hub in "parallel", etc. > > Yes that sounds good. There is a lot that could be done there. Are you > interested in mentoring a student? Just to inform you, so that we don't work on this with multiple people at the same time and waist resources. I'm currently working on this USB scan speedup. I suspect to have something ready to publish latest by end of this week. Thanks, Stefan