On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Soodeh Bakhshandeh wrote:
Dear sir I have a problem. I want to boot my pc with uboot. Which work I shold do?what is my roadmap?
First you should be sure if that's exactly what you want.
If you just want to play with u-boot on x86, porting it to bochs (or another virtual pc) should be easier and have more benefits than your pc. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
If you want free software to boot your PC, you should have a look at coreboot (linuxbios) as well. It can also boot other PC related (BIOS dependent) operating systems, like freedos, which you probably wont be able to boot with u-boot. There is a port for bochs, so you can already play with it. http://www.coreboot.org/
The big problem is that full hardware documentation is hard to get. Depending on your board and the chips used on it, you might be able to get the documentation, but historically it is a show stopper problem. This may be changing with hardware becoming more open for linux drivers, or maybe you will get lucky...
Getting a board which is already supported by Linuxbios should be the best starting point to port u-boot on it.
Good Luck
Markus