[coreboot] [PATCH]Disable failover in K8 based boards

[Patrick Georgi]

Myles Watson schrieb:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Patrick Georgi
> <patrick at georgi-clan.de <mailto:patrick at georgi-clan.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     attached patch disables failover for K8 based boards and makes
>     them use
>     the more usual fallback/normal style.
>     Fam10h requires some reduction in size, or other tricks as the ROM
>     part
>     exceeds 64k (the original ROM mapping) by just a bit. I'll work on
>     that
>     soon.
>
>     The {HAVE,USE}_FAILOVER stuff still stays in the code itself as it
>     might
>     be useful as a reference (ie. what is strictly necessary to configure
>     ROM mapping) for later work.
>
>
> My understanding was that we wanted to go the other way and have all
> boards have failover.
Kconfig doesn't support >1 image per build right now. This merely moves
abuild to the same state, to simplify development.

We might want to have "something like failover". We might want to have
"something like fallback and normal". But we will have to reconsider
what exactly we want.

In my opinion such changes are easier if the tree is as uniform as
possible. Right now, there's failover style (k8 and fam10) and
fallback/normal style (everything else). Moving from the latter to the
former is harder than the other way around.


Patrick