[coreboot] booting vxworks from linux BIOS

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu May 22 16:14:20 CEST 2014


There was a time, quite some time ago, when somebody was booting
vxworks from linuxbios, i.e. it was the payload.

ron

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Stojsavljevic, Zoran
<zoran.stojsavljevic at intel.com> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> I'll try to find answers to these questions. I might even myself build one of these images to try such a creation on IVB EL2.
>
> Please, stay tuned.
>
> Best Regards,
> Zoran
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coreboot [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:31 PM
> To: coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] booting vxworks from linux BIOS
>
> Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote:
>> There is possibility (my best guess) to use VxWorks as coreboot’s
>> payload, instead seabios
> ..
>> I can also investigate about booting VxWorks, if required
>
> It would be helpful to know how tightly the VxWorks kernel is tied to legacy runtime services from x86 BIOS and/or UEFI.
>
> If the VxWorks kernel is an ELF binary or similar simple binary format without very strong ties to legacy runtime services then it would most likely be straightforward to use a VxWorks kernel as payload with coreboot.
>
>
> //Peter
>
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