the following patch was just integrated into master: commit c5ffb4f0fcb1bf57a6376234ecf411678080569c Author: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com Date: Mon Dec 5 20:17:17 2011 +0200
Only BSP CPU writes CMOS in bootblock code
CMOS accesses are not safe for multi-processor and only the BSP CPU should count reboots and test CMOS sanity.
A questionable single byte CMOS read access from AP CPUs remains. AP CPUs should always select the same romstage prefix as BSP CPU.
Change-Id: I29118e33c07c0080c94abb90f703e38312c72432 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de at Sat Dec 24 12:10:01 2011, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/446 for details.
-gerrit