Kyösti Mälkki has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36564 )
Change subject: [TESTONLY]cpu/intel/socket_mPGA604: Run romstage from CAR ......................................................................
Patch Set 2:
before:
0:1st timestamp 367 13:starting to load romstage 1,004,157 (1,003,790) 14:finished loading romstage 1,007,503 (3,346) 1:start of rom stage 1,035,148 (27,644) 2:before ram initialization 1,118,794 (83,645) 3:after ram initialization 1,901,509 (782,714) 4:end of romstage 2,626,474 (724,965)
after:
0:1st timestamp 367 13:starting to load romstage 1,058,627 (1,058,259) 14:finished loading romstage 1,077,024 (18,396) 1:start of rom stage 1,104,382 (27,358) 2:before ram initialization 1,104,392 (9) 3:after ram initialization 1,355,040 (250,648) 4:end of romstage 1,367,352 (12,311)
Times with CBMEM console only, about 500ms of romstage improvement is in printk().