[coreboot] cbfs XIP patch

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Tue May 5 18:28:55 CEST 2009


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz> wrote:
>>> I don't think we'll ever escape the need for some way to force files
>>> into specific locations. The ROMSTRAP
>>> code from nvidia is not the first example, nor will it be the last.
>>
>> Here are two more. VIA has smth  like this too. (pointer at ffffffd0)
>> And notebooks usually has the uCode for EC somewhere fixed.
>
> I would argue that we need, at least, the part of my patch that
> includes rom_find_area if we wish to put these types of things in
> cbfs.
I agree.  I'd like to go through a round of:

1. It's impossible to do fixed locations.
2. How do we convert everything that's fixed now?
3. What's impossible to do without fixed locations?

Otherwise I'm afraid we'll end up with fixed regions that don't need
to be fixed.

Thanks,
Myles




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