[coreboot] how to deal with large romstage size?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Mar 1 18:20:02 CET 2011


Keith Hui wrote:
> Also, look at implementing TINY_BOOTBLOCK which leaves a tiny stub,
> well within the 64KB limit, which does nothing but enable enough
> hardware (southbridge to be exact) to make the entire rom visible,
> then locates and executes the real romstage which is now just another
> stage in CBFS.

Yes, this method should always be used when implementing support for
new components in coreboot.


//Peter




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