Hi Simon,
I am preparing patches for my U-Boot port on Intel Crown Bay CRB which uses Intel FSP for the memory and chipset initialization. Intel FSP is a binary blob inside which 3 pre-defined entry pointes are available for 3rd party bootloader to call to perform various jobs at different initialization stage. With the help of FSP, U-Boot can boot directly from the x86 reset vector without knowing any secrect Intel wants to hide in their chipset. Before I post them, I would like to hear your thoughts about whether it is OK to get such stuff into the U-Boot mainline.
My patches integrate the FSP binary blob into the U-Boot ROM image directly and update the U-Boot to call these 3 routines at proper timing. There are other supported codes like parsing FSP image header and HOB (hand over blob, a UEFI concept) in the FSP package that can be integrated as well. Per the license header from the FSP package released by Intel, it looks to me that the FSP binary as well as the utility source codes can be redistributed as is, however I would like post it here to hear your comments.
Additional information can be found at http://www.intel.com/fsp.
Here is the license extracted from the FSP package.
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Regards, Bin