Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Fix v3 GeodeLX stack and global variable pointer corruption

[Peter Stuge]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Fix v3 GeodeLX stack and global variable pointer corruption.
> We had a jump instead of a call to stage1_main in geodelx/stage0.S. That
> means all accesses to bist and init_detected were off by 8 bytes and
> collided with accesses to the global variable pointer.

Can you explain what, if any, effect this bug had or could have had
in practice?

//Peter