the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 6e5421d2a887737fc7c8a916d54151f9b1706f6d Author: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineering.com Date: Tue Aug 23 15:41:05 2016 -0500
sb/amd/sb700: Add option to increase SPI speed to 33MHz
Some SB700-based systems and ROMs support high speed (33MHz) SPI access instead of the power-on default 16.5MHz. Add an option to enable high speed SPI access in the bootblock, and set the default value to Disabled. This greatly decreases boot time on SB700-based systems, especiall when a large payload is in use.
On a KGPE-D16 with a Petitboot (Linux + initramfs) payload, the command prompt was accessible within 20 seconds of power on, which incidentally is faster than the proprietary BIOS on the same machine could even reach the GRUB bootloader.
Change-Id: Iadbd9bb611754262ef75a5e5a6ee4390a46e45cf Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineering.com Test: Booted KGPE-D16 with Linux payload Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/16306 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com Reviewed-by: Martin Roth martinroth@google.com
See https://review.coreboot.org/16306 for details.
-gerrit