Hi Raleigh,
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Raleigh Boulware r_boulware@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your help.
I have several boards I am looking at. One is a Pentium Main board that uses the Intel 82340LX chip set. Anther board is a Pentium that uses the Opti Viper Chip set. The third is just a Mother board that has a custom FPGA as the North and south bridge.
A couple of questions: - Are these commercially available boards? - Do you have model/part numbers? - Is this a work related port (versus a spare time personal effort)?
I think the Intel and Opti main boards could be used down the road for others to port U-boot to other Later Platforms.
Yes, I would love to get bare-bones support for more x86 CPUs into U-Boot. So far I have only done sc520 because that is all I have ready access to
Also, have you looked at Coreboot (it is a BIOS replacement project). Not that I don't want to get more x86 U-Boot ports running, but you may find that the board you are looking at is already supported by Coreboot (especially if it is a commercially available motherboard)
I have to admit my programming skills in the GNU enviroment is very limited. I am taken a Linux course now at work and I somewhat understand. I guess right now I am trying to understand and work my way through the U-boot source. So please excuse any questions that might seen odd or dumb.
Ask away - If you are unsure of mailing list etiquette, Wolfgang is rather fond of these two links:
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Don't forget to have a good look through the U-Boot wiki at:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome
And the 'U-Boot Porting Guide' found in the README:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
Just so you know, U-Boot is a hobby for me (i.e. limited time, no budget). I'm more than willing to help, but unfortunately that help is not going to extend to buying my own development hardware
thanks for your help.
My pleasure
Regards,
Graeme