Subrata Banik uploaded patch set #7 to this change.
arch/x86: Attempt to boot without postcar stage/phase
This patch provides option for soc to exclude postcar
(!RAMSTAGE_LOADS_FROM_ROMSTAGE) stage to avoid an additional stage
loading and executing time. This effort has 2 benefits:
1. Save boot time by ~4ms
2. Avoid generation of postcar.elf which saves (25kB * 3copies = 75kB)
of SPI footprint.
By current design the postcar stage/phase handles the cache-as-ram
tear down and as cache-as-ram is volatile and tearing it down leads
to its contents disappearing. Therefore provide a shim layer in ramstage
(similar to postcar) to perform below operations:
1. Tears down cache-as-ram with a chipset helper function.
2. Loads and runs ramstage.
Because those 2 things are executed out of ram there's no issue
of the code's backing store while executing the code that
tears down cache-as-ram. The current implementation makes no
assumption regarding cacheability of the DRAM itself. If the
chipset code wishes to cache DRAM for loading of the ramstage
stage/phase then it's also up to the chipset to handle any
coherency issues pertaining to cache-as-ram destruction.
With this CL, we will have 2 possible approach to load ramstage
1. romstage -> postcar -> ramstage
Referred as RAMSTAGE_LOADS_FROM_POSTCAR (majority of x86 platform
selected this from Kconfig)
2. romstage -> ramstage
Referred as RAMSTAGE_LOADS_FROM_ROMSTAGE (additional option to
load ramstage without introducing intermediate postcar stage)
Change-Id: Ibc88e6727b2fa692585dffe576e69f6d4d0b349d
Credit-to: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Subrata Banik <subrata.banik@intel.com>
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M src/Kconfig
M src/arch/x86/Kconfig
M src/arch/x86/c_start.S
M src/arch/x86/exit_car.S
M src/lib/program.ld
M src/soc/intel/common/block/cpu/Makefile.inc
6 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/52/34752/7
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