[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 12/12] x86: Update REAME.x86 for coreboot support

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,

On 5 January 2015 at 19:31, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Bin,
>>
>> On 5 January 2015 at 08:28, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Update README.x86 to include new build instructions for U-Boot as
>>> the coreboot payload and testing considerations with coreboot.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>> - New patch to update REAME.x86 for coreboot support
>>>
>>>  doc/README.x86 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Thanks for the fast response as always! Sorry, but I have to respin
> this patch due to I've found 3 typos (REAME.x86, aginst,
> u-boot-dtb.in) myself this morning. I must have had my brain cells
> tired last night :-<
>
>> What method are you using to boot a kernel? I'm wondering how we
>> document use cases like booting Ubuntu, booting from different boot
>> devices, etc. Mostly this is zImage but we could link to
>> x86-fit-boot.txt also.
>
> I am using zboot to boot a kernel bzImage with initramfs and nfs
> mounted as root. I have not tried to boot any distro out there.
>
>> There is a syslinux approach used by many ARM boards now - e.g. see
>> rpi.h which includes config_distro_defaults.h. Should we enable this
>> for x86 too?
>
> I will have a look. If we consider supporting syslinux, how about
> other bootloaders like grub?

Could do, I'm not sure how to run it, but I suppose it's not that hard.

Regards,
Simon