Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Remove non-CBFS

[Harald Gutmann]

On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:31:33 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> While using accessor functions look somewhat beneficial from a
> performance standpoint, using accessor functions to run the lzma
> decompressor is waaaaay slower (I think by at least a factor of 4) than
> copying the uncompressed code to RAMand decompressing it there.
>
> My suggestion would be to drop support for these large flash chips on
> M57SLI for now and use the copy-to-RAM mechanism once someone complains.
> I think Harald Gutmann has such a board with big flash.

Yes, you're right I've that board with a 4MB (32Mbit) chip, but right now I 
just use a 512kb chip as I never got a kernel image working directly from 
flash.
> Regads,
> Carl-Daniel

Regards,
Harald