From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@intel.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add clarifications to the x86 README
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:20:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1439382002-8054-1-git-send-email-igor.stoppa@intel.com> (raw)
Explicitly list the targets supported in each section of the instructions
from the x86 README.
Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@intel.com>
---
doc/README.x86 | 17 ++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
index af2459c..1105afe 100644
--- a/doc/README.x86
+++ b/doc/README.x86
@@ -19,14 +19,15 @@ work with minimal adjustments on other x86 boards since coreboot deals with
most of the low-level details.
U-Boot also supports booting directly from x86 reset vector without coreboot,
-aka raw support or bare support. Currently Link, QEMU x86 targets and all
-Intel boards support running U-Boot 'bare metal'.
+aka raw support or bare support. U-Boot becomes a replacement for the BIOS.
+Currently Link, QEMU x86 targets and all Intel boards support running U-Boot
+'bare metal'.
As for loading an OS, U-Boot supports directly booting a 32-bit or 64-bit
Linux kernel as part of a FIT image. It also supports a compressed zImage.
-Build Instructions
-------------------
+Build Instructions for U-Boot as coreboot payload
+-------------------------------------------------
Building U-Boot as a coreboot payload is just like building U-Boot for targets
on other architectures, like below:
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@ Change the 'Board configuration file' and 'Board Device Tree Source (dts) file'
to point to a new board. You can also change the Cache-As-RAM (CAR) related
settings here if the default values do not fit your new board.
+Build Instructions for U-Boot as BIOS replacement (raw/bare mode)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
Building a ROM version of U-Boot (hereafter referred to as u-boot.rom) is a
little bit tricky, as generally it requires several binary blobs which are not
shipped in the U-Boot source tree. Due to this reason, the u-boot.rom build is
@@ -87,7 +90,7 @@ Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom:
$ make chromebook_link_defconfig
$ make all
-Intel Crown Bay specific instructions:
+Intel Crown Bay specific instructions (raw mode):
U-Boot support of Intel Crown Bay board [4] relies on a binary blob called
Firmware Support Package [5] to perform all the necessary initialization steps
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ Now you can build U-Boot and obtain u-boot.rom
$ make crownbay_defconfig
$ make all
-Intel Minnowboard Max instructions:
+Intel Minnowboard Max instructions (raw mode):
This uses as FSP as with Crown Bay, except it is for the Atom E3800 series.
Download this and get the .fd file (BAYTRAIL_FSP_GOLD_003_16-SEP-2014.fd at
@@ -189,7 +192,7 @@ Offset Description Controlling config
Overall ROM image size is controlled by CONFIG_ROM_SIZE.
-Intel Galileo instructions:
+Intel Galileo instructions (raw mode):
Only one binary blob is needed for Remote Management Unit (RMU) within Intel
Quark SoC. Not like FSP, U-Boot does not call into the binary. The binary is
--
2.1.4
next reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-12 12:20 Igor Stoppa [this message]
2015-08-12 13:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add clarifications to the x86 README Bin Meng
2015-08-12 13:31 ` Simon Glass
2015-08-12 13:42 ` Stoppa, Igor
2015-08-12 13:40 ` Stoppa, Igor
2015-08-12 13:59 ` Bin Meng
2015-08-12 14:02 ` Simon Glass
2015-08-13 11:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] x86: " Igor Stoppa
2015-08-13 12:57 ` Bin Meng
2015-08-13 13:19 ` Stoppa, Igor
2015-08-13 13:24 ` Bin Meng
2015-08-13 13:43 ` Igor Stoppa
2015-08-13 13:54 ` Bin Meng
2015-08-14 16:50 ` Simon Glass
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-12 10:41 [U-Boot] [PATCH] " Stoppa, Igor
2015-08-12 10:59 ` Bin Meng
2015-08-12 11:58 ` Stoppa, Igor
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