Re: [coreboot] fallback/normal support [PATCH]Remove non-CBFS

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 03.10.2009 18:08, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On 02.10.2009 11:54, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> > > We need to have access to CMOS before CAR or raminit, or anything
> > > interesting happens, really. And I'm not sure if our code supports
> > > this everywhere already.
> >
> > IMHO access to CMOS before CAR is unnecessarily painful and I'd like to
> > keep that out of the targets which don't need it (VIA/AMD).
>
> Then how are we going to update CAR code in case a new CPU revision
> needs an update while still keeping normal/fallback alive?

This has never happened with any AMD or VIA CPU. And I highly doubt it
happened with Intel CPUs.
So why should we design for such an event?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel