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<p>From Patrick</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The mechanism coreboot uses for bootblock handling is called tinybootblock.<br /> <br /> Before tinybootblock, the ROM stage was put in the bootblock. With tinybootblock, the ROM stage is a separate component, and there's a bootblock that does minimal setup and then passes control to the ROM stage (potentially selecting the right one out of many).<br /> <br /> The bootblock does ROM mapping if necessary. That's the main change that must be taken care of - that's potential northbridge and southbridge code.<br /> <br /> If such code is required, it can be found in the Kconfig flags BOOTBLOCK_{NORTH,SOUTH}BRIDGE_INIT, which points to the source files that are used.<br /> See northbridge/amd/amdfam10 and southbridge/amd/amd8111 for examples.</div>

Stepan