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/*
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* Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
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*
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* See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
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* project.
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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* MA 02111-1307 USA
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*/
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Native Execution of U-Boot
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==========================
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The 'sandbox' architecture is designed to allow U-Boot to run under Linux on
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almost any hardware. To achieve this it builds U-Boot (so far as possible)
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as a normal C application with a main() and normal C libraries.
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All of U-Boot's architecture-specific code therefore cannot be built as part
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of the sandbox U-Boot. The purpose of running U-Boot under Linux is to test
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all the generic code, not specific to any one architecture. The idea is to
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create unit tests which we can run to test this upper level code.
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CONFIG_SANDBOX is defined when building a native board.
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The chosen vendor and board names are also 'sandbox', so there is a single
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board in board/sandbox/sandbox.
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CONFIG_SANDBOX_BIG_ENDIAN should be defined when running on big-endian
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machines.
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Note that standalone/API support is not available at present.
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The serial driver is a very simple implementation which reads and writes to
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the console. It does not set the terminal into raw mode, so cursor keys and
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history will not work yet.
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Tests
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-----
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So far we have no tests, but when we do these will be documented here.
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