Re: [coreboot] 3 questions about coreboot

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 7/7/10 12:44 PM, ali hagigat wrote:
> Stefan,
>
> BIOS chip is not connected to CPU directly after reset!!

It's never connected directly, anyways, but through some kind of bridge.
Usually the southbridge.
> > I mean the hardware immediately accesses BIOS chip after reset
> but at
> > some point all memory read/write cycles are claimed by 945 and
> memory
> > controller?
> > No, that assumption is not true.
>
>
> If not so what happens? CPU does not have address/data buses directly
> attached to the BIOS chip.

The address cycles are claimed by whatever components live in any given
address space.

Stefan