Delay in copying Linuxbios to ram

[Eric W. Biederman]

Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:

> > I have the same delay problem on VIA EPIA board.
> > It didn't run with biosbase set to 0xffff0000 (hangs after first banner,
> > and I don't have a POST card to track it down).
> 
> Not surprising, some implementations depend on executing at 0xf0000.  If the
> serial port is working, you can put in prints etc and track it down without a
> POST card.
> 
> > In cpu/p6/earlymtrr.inc, 0xf0000-0xfffff is left uncached.
> > (Only 0-640KB is cached, 640KB-1M is uncached)
> > I will try adding code there to set fixed MTRR for 0xf0000-0xfffff
> > WP caching.
> > It should be harmless for other boards that do not need this,
> > what do you think?
> >
> 
> Not sure.  Need to see if the RAM is turned on for this region later after the
> C-code starts, if so, then the cache memory type may have to be changed from WP
> to normal.

The generic code should handle this.  I believe all of the mtrrs are rebuilt.

Eric