[coreboot] [PATCH]clean up bootblocksize handling in cbfstool, kconfig

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Nov 12 16:42:11 CET 2009


Peter Stuge wrote:
> > I keep forgetting that the bootblock has to be < 64Kb so that the
> > start is reachable with a jump in 16-bit mode.
> 
> Why does it not work to do e.g. jmp fffe:0000?

Is CS set up especially for the top 64k on reset? I've known this..


But, in any case, maybe the bootblock can be split up so that there
really only is a minimum (not 64k!) of stuff which needs to be near
fffffff0?


//Peter




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