From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Brunner Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:14:21 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] boot pc with uboot In-Reply-To: <483DAA89.6030102@ge.com> References: <483DAA89.6030102@ge.com> Message-ID: <200805292314.23001.super.firetwister@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Jerry Van Baren wrote: > Soodeh Bakhshandeh wrote: > > Dear sir > > I have a problem. I want to boot my pc with uboot. Which work I shold > > do?what is my roadmap? First you should be sure if that's exactly what you want. If you just want to play with u-boot on x86, porting it to bochs (or another virtual pc) should be easier and have more benefits than your pc. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ If you want free software to boot your PC, you should have a look at coreboot (linuxbios) as well. It can also boot other PC related (BIOS dependent) operating systems, like freedos, which you probably wont be able to boot with u-boot. There is a port for bochs, so you can already play with it. http://www.coreboot.org/ > The big problem is that full hardware documentation is hard to get. > Depending on your board and the chips used on it, you might be able to > get the documentation, but historically it is a show stopper problem. > This may be changing with hardware becoming more open for linux drivers, > or maybe you will get lucky... Getting a board which is already supported by Linuxbios should be the best starting point to port u-boot on it. Good Luck Markus