[coreboot] EP80579 Mainboard support

Arnaud Maye arnaud.maye at 4dsp.com
Sun Apr 19 12:47:36 CEST 2009


Peter Stuge wrote:
> Arnaud Maye wrote:
>   
>> Anyone around here as already used coreboot to "boot" a Vxworks
>> system?
>>     
>
> I don't know.
>
> Do you know a lot about the boot process of VxWorks? Or do you have
> good contacts with WindRiver which we can ask?
>
> The ideal for coreboot would be if VxWorks can be started using a
> self-contained 32-bit ELF file. That's what we use for payload.
>
> It can be a bootloader, or it can even be the kernel itself.
>
> Please let us know if you find out more info.
>   

Vxworks, LynxOS kernel are meant to be boot from ELF images. These 
systems are
usually tiny. A lot of these system do not even have a hard disk.

So it sounds promising, great!

I will keep you guys updated as soon we go forward on this project.

Best Regards,

Arnaud
> Of course you can always use SeaBIOS to boot the old-fashioned way.
>
>
> //Peter
>
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