[coreboot] v3 stage2 running from flash

[Corey Osgood]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:09 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > *phew* I was worried that was how v3 was always going to run. As for
>>> those
>>> > times Ron, stage0 takes <1 second, initram is ~5 seconds,
>>>
>>> the initram seems way too long. But that stage 2 tells me you have
>>> some real problems with your dram setup.
>>
>>
>> It could have been less, timing output from a serial port with a stopwatch
>> isn't very exact. I don't think there's anything wrong with the dram setup,
>> I ran memtest86 overnight without any errors.
>>
>> I know nothing about this part. I wonder if you could dump your mtrr
>>> settings and let us see them.
>>
>>
>> Sure, what point do you want them from? End of stage1?
>>
>
> Here's a boot log that dumps them right after serial comes up, again just
> before disable_car(), and once more before loading stage2. After that mtrrs
> aren't touched until stage 2 phase 6 AFAIK. I wish I knew more about this
> stuff, I should probably make some time to read those Intel x86 programming
> guides.
>

Alright, it was ridiculously simple. I added #defines for XIP_ROM_SIZE/BASE
in stage0.S like core2 has, and now it boots MUCH MUCH faster, until it gets
into phase6_init and does the MTRR init that I brought in from v2, after
that it slows back down. I'll send a patch to set that properly and to fix
it in core2 (currently hardcoded to a 1MB rom) soonish. Is the proper
solution to the MTRR problem to teach that mtrr_init() not to mess up the
caching MTRR, to set the caching back up after init, or just to not bother
with the late init?

Thanks,
Corey
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