[coreboot] Boot flow flexibility changes

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 22:45:42 CEST 2013


The timer scheduler for hardware init scares me a bit... but I'd like
to see an implementation.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Aaron Durbin <adurbin at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:52 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  we really need the timer scheduler on newer platforms.
>>
>> Some of the platforms are so old they may not be testable.
>>
>> My plan is to provide timer_us for all platforms I can test, and then
>> have only the new platforms use timer queue interface. I think we can
>> manage this with proper configuration of makefiles.
>
>
> OK. Let me look into it more then. I can probably have something next
> week some time once I tease out the weird implementations of the
> current udelay() functions. The only thing we'll have to get a handle
> on is roll over in whatever hardware is providing a the free running
> timer.
>
> -Aaron
>
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