Re: [coreboot] coreboot+seabios timings

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 10/17/10 8:56 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> It would help a lot with SATA link init. That is the biggest time waster
> (few seconds) on my RS690/SB600 box because apparently my HDD only
> completes link init after spinup. Kicking it early and polling for it
> very late would allow coreboot to do something useful in between.

We generally do a lot of waiting.. keyboard controller, azalia, cpu
init, and others too. Try searching the code for mdelay and udelay.
> Being able to register a callback which is called directly before
> payload execution would be the simplest way to do this.

what function would one register there?