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x86: Add documentation for the chain-load feature
Add a few notes about this feature, which is aimed for development. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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See :doc:`../uefi/u-boot_on_efi` and :doc:`../uefi/uefi` for details of
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See :doc:`../uefi/u-boot_on_efi` and :doc:`../uefi/uefi` for details of
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EFI support in U-Boot.
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EFI support in U-Boot.
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Chain-loading
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U-Boot can be chain-loaded from another bootloader, such as coreboot or
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Slim Bootloader. Typically this is done by building for targets 'coreboot' or
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'slimbootloader'.
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For example, at present we have a 'coreboot' target but this runs very
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different code from the bare-metal targets, such as coral. There is very little
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in common between them.
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It is useful to be able to boot the same U-Boot on a device, with or without a
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first-stage bootloader. For example, with chromebook_coral, it is helpful for
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testing to be able to boot the same U-Boot (complete with FSP) on bare metal
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and from coreboot. It allows checking of things like CPU speed, comparing
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registers, ACPI tables and the like.
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To do this you can use ll_boot_init() in appropriate places to skip init that
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has already been done by the previous stage. This works by setting a
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GD_FLG_NO_LL_INIT flag when U-Boot detects that it is running from another
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bootloader.
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With this feature, you can build a bare-metal target and boot it from
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coreboot, for example.
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Note that this is a development feature only. It is not intended for use in
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production environments. Also it is not currently part of the automated tests
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so may break in the future.
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TODO List
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TODO List
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