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All the world's an x86

All the world's an x86

Posted Jul 9, 2024 9:17 UTC (Tue) by mfuzzey (subscriber, #57966)
In reply to: All the world's an x86 by paulbarker
Parent article: Giving bootloaders the boot with nmbl

Agreed, this depends on earlier stage boot firmware to initialise the firmware.

But in the embedded world something similar already exists with u-boot "falcon mode".
There the hardware boot ROM + u-boot SPL do the basic firmware init and then the u-boot SPL directly loads the Linux kernel (usually the final kernel).


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