Re: [coreboot] [patch 2/3] Use ACPI table area to store cbmem_toc pointer needed for resume

[Rudolf Marek]

Hi,

In fact I was thinking that we can add custom "OEMx" tables to ACPI and dump 
them using acpi tools. I mean we can add the hooks to ACPI so cbmem stuff is 
available per table in ACPI.

The AMD chipsets needs to use NVRAM because there is stored DQS driving values 
for memory controller. Also the cbmem address is stored there because one cannot 
find it very easily if there is frambuffer (and on AMD all access is uncached 
that time). This NVRAM is not CMOS it is just 256 bytes of storage which 
survives S3 state.

Thanks,
Rudolf