Re: bootloader support for DTB on x86

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-RM9K5IK7kjKj5M59NBduVrNAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org> wrote:

quoted

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