bootloader support for DTB on x86

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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 not sure if I can get U-Boot to run on this platform. It's Atom-
based and I don't think anybody's gotten that to work yet.

syslinux 4.06 should support loading of DTBs on x86.

Thierry
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