Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] artecgroup/dbe61: Set up 4MB mode for LPC dongle

[Mart Raudsepp]

> On 28.05.2008 02:30, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > artecgroup/dbe61: Set up 4MB mode for LPC dongle
> >
> > This way we can fit a kernel and initramfs on the dongle's free ~3.75MB
> > space
> > and have a debug system bootable right from inside the dongle. The start
> > address of the dongle is mem@0xffc00000 for FILO with 4MB minus ROM area
> > available.
> >
> > This should be a no-op when not booting from the dongle.
> >
> > The same change was done to artecgroup/dbe62/stage1.c in rev660.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mart Raudsepp
>
> I don't like it that much, but then again, nothing else on this board
> will ever listen to port 0x88.

Maybe it's time for another Kconfig option? Many other boards can boot
with the dongle as well, and they similarly could benefit from a kernel
right in the dongle. Initially I was suggested to put it in mainboard
specific code, with stage1 getting no objections.

Committed as rev687

Thanks,
Mart Raudsepp