[coreboot] [PATCH] SB700: enable PrefetchEnSPIFromHost to improve boot time from SPI flash

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Oct 18 05:52:12 CEST 2010


On 18.10.2010 03:49, Scott Duplichan wrote:
> This patch enables SB700 option PrefetchEnSPIFromHost in early setup.
> It affects only systems booting from SPI flash, not those booting from
> LPC flash. By default, the SB700 reads dwords from the SPI flash chip.
> Setting PrefetchEnSPIFromHost causes the SB700 to read entire cache
> lines from the flash chip. 
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Duplichan <scott at notabs.org>
>   

(Speaking with my flashrom hat on)
Looks good to me.

I think we want the same setting for SB600 if it is available there.

Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Can you commit or should I do it?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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