3 comments:
Patch Set #4, Line 7: depreciations
deprecations
Done
Patch Set #4, Line 14: notes?
You're correct and this is a good idea, however I think it's outside the scope of this patch which i […]
Ack
File Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.12-relnotes.md:
Historically the bootblock on x86 platforms has been compiled with
romcc. This means that the generated code only uses CPU registers
and therefore no stack. This 20K+ LOC compiler is limited and hard
to maintain and so is the code that one has to write in that
environment. A different solution is to set up Cache-as-Ram in the
bootblock and run GCC compiled code in the bootblock. The advantages
are increased flexibility and consistency with other architectures as
well as other stages: e.g. printing to console is possible and
VBOOT can run before romstage, making romstage updatable via RW FMAP
regions.
Well the attempt is to design bootblock to be read-only flash region. […]
Done
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