[coreboot] [PATCH][RFC] A new way using a binary file to add-stage to a rom file on ARM

[Hamo]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> http://www.mini-box.com/mini2440v2  is an old ARM9 dev board that is still
> readily available the uses a 2MB NOR Flash for init and bootloader. Most ARM
> systems that will make use of coreboot won't have a separate SPI or NOR
> flash to hold the init and bootloader. But you have to start somewhere.
> We'll just have to make this work from on-board NAND, eMMC or SD Card later.

If we don't add romstage to the romfile and don't compress the
ramstage since the decompress code is too big for bootblock we can
boot from the NAND Flash or SD card. In the ramstage, we init the
Flash controller so that we can read the payload and kernel from the
NAND flash later.
I don't test my thought yet. Maybe it doesn't work for that I may
assume something like we have a romstage in my code.