[coreboot] libpci accesses in CAR, I need a suggestion

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Thu Aug 11 00:42:35 CEST 2011


* Tadas Slotkus <devtadas at gmail.com> [110811 00:32]:
> 
> > There will be a problem leaving the XIP area cached while trying to 
> > write to the flash. At the least this means it's not possible to write 
> > the whole flash. Is this intended? What's the plan here?
> 
> Should it be possible to map flash contents in cache to somewhat non
> existing location?
 
I think CAR only works well for data, not for instructions. That said,
you can cache the ROM, but probably not copy it to cache and jmp there.

Stefan






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