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    x86: Support a chained-boot development flow · e5aa8a9b
    Simon Glass authored
    
    
    Sometimes it is useful to jump into U-Boot directly from coreboot or UEFI
    without any 16-bit init. This can help during development by allowing U-Boot
    to avoid doing all the init required by the platform.
    
    U-Boot expects its GDT to be set up correctly by its 16-bit code. If
    coreboot doesn't do this (because it hasn't run the payload setup code yet)
    then this won't happen.
    
    In this case we cannot rely on the GDT settings. U-Boot will hang or crash
    if these are wrong. Provide a development-only option to set up the GDT
    correctly. This is just a hack so you can jump to U-Boot from any stage of
    coreboot, not just at the end.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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