[coreboot] [PATCH] Factor out common CAR asm snippets

[Peter Stuge]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> IMHO the patch makes it really hard to actually see what the code
> does.

I think this is the same argument as the one against pci_cfg8_set()
and similar functions which would gather read+modify+write into one
step.

I disagree that it's a problem. I think that anyone looking at this
code should be able to remember e.g. that the bist is saved in ebp,
or that enabling the cache clobbers eax..

I think it is far more valuable if this code can be slightly more
high level, shorter, and much more heterogenous.

Also, apropos shorter, this code should not have to keep a lot of
state across many operations, which IMO reduces the problem.


> Now we seem have a lot more code that comes from somewhere else and
> touches registers without it being obvious to the reader of the
> code.

We could make a strict policy that all macros used in any CAR code
must come from car.h.


//Peter