[coreboot] Stutter on boot for Geos embedded board

[Nathan Williams]

On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 22:09 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm seeing the following... When rebooting from Linux, Linux shuts down and I see "machine restart." then the grub prompt, grub eventually tries to load something, but seems to fail, and I see the Coreboot messages, then I see the grub prompt again, and the second time it tries to load Linux it succeeds.
> 
> So in the end it boots, but it's annoying and adds to the load time.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this, and if it's a known issue?
> 
> Also, is there a reboot=xxx value that would be a suitable workaround for this?
> 
> This is Coreboot 3.0 on a Geos.
> 
> Oh, almost forgot: is there a fixed area in memory that I can detect the platform name?  I'm trying to have a Linux module that's platform specific (leds-geos.c) fail to load on any other platform.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 

Hi Philip,

Try the latest coreboot source.  Coreboot v4 works much better than v3
on Geos.

Regards,
Nathan