Hi Raleigh, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Raleigh Boulware <r_boulw...@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 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
