| Simon Glass | 744d985 | 2011-10-10 08:22:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. |
| 3 | * |
| 4 | * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this |
| 5 | * project. |
| 6 | * |
| 7 | * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| 8 | * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as |
| 9 | * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of |
| 10 | * the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| 11 | * |
| 12 | * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 13 | * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| 14 | * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| 15 | * GNU General Public License for more details. |
| 16 | * |
| 17 | * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| 18 | * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
| 19 | * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, |
| 20 | * MA 02111-1307 USA |
| 21 | */ |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Native Execution of U-Boot |
| 24 | ========================== |
| 25 | |
| 26 | The 'sandbox' architecture is designed to allow U-Boot to run under Linux on |
| 27 | almost any hardware. To achieve this it builds U-Boot (so far as possible) |
| 28 | as a normal C application with a main() and normal C libraries. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | All of U-Boot's architecture-specific code therefore cannot be built as part |
| 31 | of the sandbox U-Boot. The purpose of running U-Boot under Linux is to test |
| 32 | all the generic code, not specific to any one architecture. The idea is to |
| 33 | create unit tests which we can run to test this upper level code. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | CONFIG_SANDBOX is defined when building a native board. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | The chosen vendor and board names are also 'sandbox', so there is a single |
| 38 | board in board/sandbox/sandbox. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | CONFIG_SANDBOX_BIG_ENDIAN should be defined when running on big-endian |
| 41 | machines. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | Note that standalone/API support is not available at present. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | The serial driver is a very simple implementation which reads and writes to |
| 46 | the console. It does not set the terminal into raw mode, so cursor keys and |
| 47 | history will not work yet. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Tests |
| 51 | ----- |
| 52 | |
| 53 | So far we have no tests, but when we do these will be documented here. |