the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 6f9947a3ec2cf481dbb233660a29f757a8707cf8 Author: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Date: Mon Nov 18 11:16:20 2013 -0600
baytrail: enable caching and prefetching in spi controller
The default mode of the SPI controller has prefetching disabled. That obviously has a performance impact. Enable both caching and prefetching to make booting faster. This has a significant impact on streaming data out of SPI.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:24085 BRANCH=None TEST=Built and booted rambi. Payload loading step went from ~285ms to ~54ms.
Change-Id: I065cf44e1de7dcefc49aa9ea9ad0204929ab26f4 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/177220 Reviewed-by: Shawn Nematbakhsh shawnn@chromium.org Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4976 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de
See http://review.coreboot.org/4976 for details.
-gerrit