[coreboot] [patch] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

[Ronald Hoogenboom]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:42 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 25.02.2008 22:36, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:10 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> >>>       
> >> OK; do you want to prepare a new patch?
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I would like to find a (semi-)nice way to get the SPI IO port number
> > (now hardcoded 0x820) from the device tree settings. Do you have a
> > suggestion?
> >  Otherwise I'll add yet another Config variable (not so nice).
> >   
> 
> Read it from the Super I/O?
> 
I've found a nicer way: make an init_gpio in the superio.c that puts the
port value in a global var if the PIOROM_STREAM is enabled.

This patch allows direct out-of-SPI-flash boot of a Linux kernel. It
circumvents the 512KB limitation in the IT8716f superio of memory
mapping an SPI flash device by using a PIO method for reading the data.
Limitation: no nrv2b support.

Signed-off-by: Ronald Hoogenboom <hoogenboom30 at zonnet.nl>

Regards,
Ronald
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