[coreboot] the seabios reboot in the post process

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sat Mar 14 01:06:03 CET 2009


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:03:18AM +0000, wei yang wrote:
> > Thanks.  You don't have the latest version of SeaBIOS, and a bunch of
> > changes recently went into the ata code.  Please pull the latest
> > version from git and retry.
> It works fine with the latest SeaBIOS.
> Thanks .

Great.

> Here, I got another question. Since I have disabled the cache in the
> codeboot, I found the SeaBios don't touch the cache flag in the CR0.
> Do you think it is good to depends on the Coreboot Cache setting?

SeaBIOS does depend on coreboot to properly setup caching.  Proper
cache setup requires more than just altering CR0 (eg, setting up the
mtrrs).  So, I think it is simpler to rely on coreboot to do this.

-Kevin




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