[U-Boot] testing x86 builds on the fly

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 05:49, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 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) ?

for now i'd like to stick to u-boot and fall back to coreboot only if
necessary (because u-boot cant do what i desire).  this behavior is
possible on Blackfin systems already ... i test all the time there by
doing 'tftp 0 u-boot.bin;go 0'.
-mike