bootloader support for DTB on x86

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Thierry Reding <
thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking at booting an x86-based platform using DT. However I wasn't
> able to find a bootloader that supports this. There also doesn't seem to
> be a
> method to append the DTB to the zImage (which I wouldn't want to use
> anyway).
> Does anybody know of a bootloader that supports this?
>

Maybe U-Boot with a FIT image? Also, you should support having multiple
device trees in the image and the boot loader selecting the correct one.

I don't think we should rely on there being an initrd - what do we do if
there isn't one?


>
> I'm currently using syslinux (specifically extlinux) and was looking at
> perhaps adding the support myself based on the information given in
> Documentation/x86/boot.txt. However I'm not overly familiar with syslinux
> code and this could prove more difficult than I anticipate.
>
> The only x86 platforms that use DT seem to be OLPC and CE4100 and according
> to the web the OLPC has a complete OF implementation. Does anyone know
> which
> bootloader the CE4100 uses?
>
> Thierry
>
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Regards,
Simon
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