[coreboot] [PATCH] Add option 'compress ramstage'

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Mon May 2 17:42:02 CEST 2011


Am 02.05.2011 16:13, schrieb Sven Schnelle:
> Add an option to make compression of ramstage configurable. Right now
> it is always compressed. On my Thinkpad, the complete boot to grub takes
> 4s, with around 1s required for decompressing ramstage. This is probably
> caused by the fact the decompression does a lot of single byte/word/qword
> accesses, which are really slow on SPI buses. So give the user the option
> to store ramstage uncompressed, if he has enough memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens at stackframe.org>
Acked-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>




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