the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 7176ac78e3d7ad16891b4925ce440bf2a90d0131 Author: Vladimir Serbinenko phcoder@gmail.com Date: Wed Feb 5 19:46:45 2014 +0100
Remove CACHE_ROM.
With the recent improvement 3d6ffe76f8a505c2dff5d5c6146da3d63dad6e82, speedup by CACHE_ROM is reduced a lot. On the other hand this makes coreboot run out of MTRRs depending on system configuration, hence screwing up I/O access and cache coherency in worst cases.
CACHE_ROM requires the user to sanity check their boot output because the feature is brittle. The working configuration is dependent on I/O hole size, ram size, and chipset. Because of this the current implementation can leave a system configured in an inconsistent state leading to unexpected results such as poor performance and/or inconsistent cache-coherency
Remove this as a buggy feature until we figure out how to do it properly if necessary.
Change-Id: I858d78a907bf042fcc21fdf7a2bf899e9f6b591d Signed-off-by: Vladimir Serbinenko phcoder@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/5146 for details.
-gerrit