[U-Boot] testing x86 builds on the fly

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 14:49:02 CEST 2011


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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