[coreboot] Question about STACK_SIZE

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de> [130502 17:40]:
> Am 02.05.2013 16:32, schrieb Aaron Durbin:
> > I am wondering why the ramstage stack size is so large on a lot of boards:
> 
> > Is this just an artifact of copy-n-paste? What is driving the
> > requirement for such large stack sizes?
> Other than for wakeup-from-suspend, no-one ever cares if that's 4k or
> 400k, except that things might fail if it is too small.
> 
> And Google is the first organisation with a huge interest in an
> optimized wakeup in coreboot.
> 
> Patrick

It is true. As soon as coreboot has suspend/resume enabled, the memory
used by coreboot is permanently lost to the OS. While nobody cares about
400K missing on a 4G system, it would still be nice to only use what we
need; Otherwise people could start thinking coreboot is a big and clunky
firmware framework rather than a sleek and slim solution.

Stefan