Re: [coreboot] [announce] coreboot for the 21st century

[Andrew Wu]

2014-03-27 21:55 GMT+08:00 Kyösti Mälkki :
> On 03/27/2014 03:13 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> > If you can make it compile in romcc without relying on coreboot base
> > libraries, we could keep Vortex86 RAM init building via romcc. As I
> > understand Stefan, his main motivation for this push is to clean out all
> > the romcc related special cases in coreboot's core.
>
> Can we think of building vortex86ex raminit in bootblock? Having a quick
> look at it, it seems SPD / SMBus is not involved and only the bank geometry
> is programmed in PCI config space.

Yes, I believe I can simplify and move RAM init code from romstage
into bootblock. But we still need romcc to compile this part, doesn't
it?

Andrew