Dear Graeme,
Am Mittwoch, den 27.01.2010, 09:52 +1100 schrieb Graeme Russ: […] > To date, I have been doing a lot of work getting a functionaly stable > boot loader up and running. I ended up choosing U-Boot because it > appeared to be the most open of all mature boot loaders. coreboot also seems to support some boards with the AMD SC520 [1]. > U-Boot had a > very old and incomplete x86 / sc520 port which I have put a lot of > work into maturing and stabalising. Nearly all of this work to date > has been fed back into the U-Boot source (you can track my progress on > their mailing list). I am now at the point where I feel confident that > U-Boot can launch a Linux kernel. > > The problem is - I don't know how to proceed. It looks like PPC and > ARM have very strong embedded followings and there is a lot of > information out there for people that want to get an embedded kernel > running on these platforms. x86 seems to be a very poor cousin. > > So far, I have cloned the 2.6.33 linux kernel Git repository and > configured and compiled the kernel. Where does Linux stop if you try to boot it? > I think my first question is about how to get hardware information > (RAM layout etc) to the Kernel. It looks like the initial U-Boot > implementation setup a very basic BIOS which emulated part of the > traditional PC BIOS. Surely there is a better way to do this. Is the > Simple Firmware Interface an option? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry I cannot help further. Should not the guys on the U-Boot list know more about how to get U-Boot and Linux running on a x86 system? Thanks, Paul [1] http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
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