[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: Work around broken MTRR setup in VIA CAR

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 01.11.2008 23:21, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Once we touch the MTRRs in VIA disable_car(), the CPU resets. Since
> workarounds are better than instant reboots, mangle the code so that it
> only switches stacks and flushes the cache.
>
> There are two genuine fixes in there as well: Switch %esp before CAR is
> disabled. That way, debugging becomes easier and the stack is always valid.
>   

And one of the nastier bugs easily happening in C: We had a pointer to a
const struct, but we wanted a const pointer to a struct. This kills the
(correct) warning about that code.

> Many thanks to Corey for testing countless iterations of that code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
> Attached for poor gmail users.
>   

New version attached. It also fixes a missing semicolon that somehow
snuck into the earlier patch.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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