[coreboot] Timings v2
bari
bari at onelabs.com
Tue Apr 21 04:57:45 CEST 2009
Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> I don't think my epia-cn has FWH. With FWH, will a cache-line fill
> result in a 128byte flash read, or does one have to implement special
> instructions to make use of it?
>
> As a side note, things will also improve a little with lzma
> compression of the roms.
Much to my surprise the VIA Epia's tend to use FWH mode flash devices.
Take a look at your flash part number. There is not a way that I am
aware of however to read the pin-strap on the VIA vt8237 to see how it
is set for either LPC/FWH if your device supports dual mode.
-Bari
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