[U-Boot-Users] [yes, i tried rtfming docs]u-boot on x86, how to?

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi Geraldo,
your final course project appear very interesting.

As others guys already said porting U-Boot to your board is a hard
work. Verifying Makefile I found for i386 only AMD SC520 boards are
supported.

I think you can use coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) and FILO to boot your board.

If your thin client board is not supported
(http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards) you can use VIA
pc2500 board that is being mass produced here in Brazil and is cheap.

You can use this tutorial as start point if you don't have a supported hardware:
http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial

Best Regards,

Alan

2008/7/26 Geraldo Netto <geraldonetto at gmail.com>:
> Hi :)
>
> regarding ppc boards,oh, i didn't know that
> actually i'm a 22yo newbie guy which is interested in u-boot
> because i do study information systems in Brazil and i'm doing a
> linux distro for thin clients(as a final course project->monograph+software)
> and i got interested in u-boot because it seems the *correct*
> bootloader for my project
> ie: it seems far smaller than other ones and at once offers many features :)
> and i also studied/setup grub/lilo/syslinux :)
> i need to compare bootloaders and write down the features of each one and show
> which bootloader is better for each case
> ie: which one has 'best' features for diskless boot;
> which one is better for local boot(size, 'dinamyc configuration(ie:
> pass parameter on the fly)',...,...;
> ...
>
> Kind Regards and Best Wishes,
>
> Geraldo
> São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt
> site: http://exdev.sf.net/
> msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com
> skype: geraldo-netto
> icq: 145-061-456
>
>
>
> 2008/7/26 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:
>> In message <faf3083f0807261131t57aa2d05ib1f8a4c85960266d at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>>
>>> sudo tar xjvf u-boot-1.3.3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
>>>
>>> then i tried:
>>>
>>> make distclean canyonlands_config all
>>> (as i read at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootConfiguration )
>>
>> You mention "u-boot on x86" in the subjct - are you aware that the
>> Canyonlands board is not x86, but PPC?
>>
>> What you should do is:
>>
>>        make distclean
>>        make canyonlands_config
>>        make all
>>
>> Do not try to perform all there steps in a single call to make - this
>> cannot work.
>>
>>> mbdev-deb:/usr/src/u-boot-1.3.3# make distclean canyonlands_config all
>>> Configuring for canyonlands board...
>>> System not configured - see README
>>> make: ** [all] Erro 1
>>
>> This is caused by your incorrect call to make - see above.
>>
>>> also, as you all can easely see, i was not able to 'configure' the system
>>> i tried many other things in a 'adhoc' way and i still not able to
>>> handle this :(
>>
>> Please read the manual - it describes step by step what to do.
>> If you had follwed the examples, aboveerror could have been avoided.
>> See http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/Manual?stickboard=canyonlands
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Wolfgang Denk
>>
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