From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] testing x86 builds on the fly
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:49:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108061449.02748.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJaTeTr31ma=Udb5vpxyzpBJ2=-R=trLsuK-rPVSq6E-MwEfdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 01:22:38 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> disclaimer: i have like 0 u-boot experience on x86. but i cant find
> README's in the src to answer my questions.
>
> the PIC support on x86 is finished right ? so does that mean we can
> take a u-boot.bin, tftp it to a running system into external memory,
> and then boot that on the fly purely for testing purposes ?
>
> burning to flash is both horribly slow and dangerous :x.
You want to use uboot as a bios replacement? Won't coreboot be better for that
(which would in turn load uboot if needed) ?
> -mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-06 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-06 11:22 [U-Boot] testing x86 builds on the fly Mike Frysinger
2011-08-06 12:49 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2011-08-06 23:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-08-07 0:54 ` Graeme Russ
2011-08-07 10:21 ` Graeme Russ
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