[U-Boot-Users] Can u-boot work for PC?
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Oct 17 23:23:26 CEST 2006
In message <45348BF2.000055.03554 at bj163app78.163.com> you wrote:
>
> I've been thinking this question for long time.There's only one
> supported board of x86 arch. But it's different with PC. There's no
> flash on PC's board, so where should u-boot be stored? I think it may
Most boards do have flashon board. They use it to store the BIOS.
> be hdd, correct? And PC have rom-bios. I'm trying to make u-boot work
Usually that's not ROM, but flash.
> for PC and find it so difficult.Is there anybody has done this work?
> Can the source for sc520 board be used on PC with some fix?
If you accept that "some fix" is a big, non-trivial project which
requires an intimate knowledge of your mainboard and it's chipset
(including access to related developer's documentation which is not
easy to find), then the answer is yes.
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Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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