[coreboot] first output: dbe62 and v3

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Mar 5 22:51:41 CET 2008


On 05.03.2008 18:59, Marc Jones wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> On 05.03.2008 18:13, Marc Jones wrote:
>>> ron minnich wrote:
>>>  
>>>> One thing I plan to change pretty soon: power button control can move
>>>> from stage1 to stage2, and power button control will be managed in dts
>>>> (another dts setting we would NOT want visible in Kconfig; you could
>>>> render a board totally unbootable and unrepairable with the wrong
>>>> setting. Kconfig should be for settings that are safe to change).
>>>>     
>>> This would be great. It should be easy to add a dts item and call 
>>> cs5536_setup_power_button or not. Moving it to stage 2 should be 
>>> fine BUT until the power button is setup it won't work. Some people 
>>> might not like that if you hang or delay somewhere prior to it being 
>>> setup.   
>>
>> Can we set up the power button in a way that makes it work always, 
>> then change the setup in stage2?
>
> That is the problem. For systems that don't have a powerbutton, 
> enabling the button logic will cause a reset in 4 seconds which would 
> be fine if you could gaurnettee that it would be reprogrammed by then 
> but that is just the oposite problem described above. What if there is 
> a delay prior to rprograming it?

Now that problem makes sense. Thanks for explaining it!


>>>>         msr = rdmsr(GLCP_SYS_RSTPLL);
>>>>         if (msr.lo & (0x3f << 26)) {
>>>>                 /* PLL is already set and we are reboot from PLL 
>>>> reset. */
>>>>                 return;
>>>>         }
>>>>
>>>>         cs5536_setup_idsel();
>>>>     
>>> Need this to do stage2. Without it the 5536 won't decode PCI.   
>>
>> Did you mean stage1?
>
> You need to do it in stage1 so you can do stage2 (stage 2 needs to 
> find the device before it can program it).

Sorry, I had misread your sentence as "Need to do this in stage2". 
That's why I was confused. Rereading it revealed my misunderstanding.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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