the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 7f8afe063139f6fc7076a3e4edf6093a953792dc Author: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Date: Fri Mar 18 12:21:23 2016 -0500
arch/x86: introduce postcar stage/phase
Certain chipsets don't have a memory-mapped boot media so their code execution for stages prior to DRAM initialization is backed by SRAM or cache-as-ram. The postcar stage/phase handles the cache-as-ram situation where in order to tear down cache-as-ram one needs to be executing out of a backing store that isn't transient. By current definition, cache-as-ram is volatile and tearing it down leads to its contents disappearing. Therefore provide a shim layer, postcar, that's loaded into memory and executed which does 2 things:
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 postcar stage/phase then it's also up to the chipset to handle any coherency issues pertaining to cache-as-ram destruction.
Change-Id: Ia58efdadd0b48f20cfe7de2f49ab462306c3a19b Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14140 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh furquan@google.com
See https://review.coreboot.org/14140 for details.
-gerrit