[coreboot] [announce] coreboot for the 21st century

Andrew Wu andrewwu.tw at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 20:07:23 CEST 2014


2014-03-27 21:13 GMT+08:00 Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>:
> Am 2014-03-27 14:00, schrieb Andrew Wu:
>
>> So if I want to get rid of romcc, maybe I have to write DRAM init code
>> in assembly, That is not very easy. :(
>
> If you can make it compile in romcc without relying on coreboot base
> libraries, we could keep Vortex86 RAM init building via romcc. As I
> understand Stefan, his main motivation for this push is to clean out all the
> romcc related special cases in coreboot's core.

Sorry for late reply. Vortex86EX romstage code relies on coreboot
library mainly for CPU and hardware I/O register access, and debug
messages(print_debug/print_emerg, etc). So I think it is not hard to
rewrite this part.


Andrew



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