Re: [coreboot] [PATCH][RFC] A new way using a binary file to add-stage to a rom file on ARM

[Patrick Georgi]

Am Freitag, den 22.07.2011, 20:25 +0800 schrieb Hamo:
> The first and most important reason is the size of bootblock. As I say
> in the last mail, the internal SRAM for holding the first sector of
> NAND Flash is very small. For example, Samsung 2410 CPU only has a 4K
> internal SRAM.

4K is generally more than what the x86 bootblock uses.
> Second, ARM CPU is not as powerful as X86. The decompress function
> will need much more time than that on X86.

The bootblock also doesn't decompress. That's what the romstage
(executed from ROM) does after RAM is alive.

Patrick