[coreboot] apologies in advance for a question I may have asked

[ron minnich]

turns out 16 MiB will do it!

Thanks all! I really am glad you are here to answer silly questions :-)

ron

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 27.08.2014 22:07 schrieb ron minnich:
>> well, stefan, I was hoping not to hear that answer, but I guess that's
>> the way it goes :-)
>
> Well, 16 MByte are doable and also happen on real hardware, but with
> bigger chips you're out of luck. Both for SPI addressing reasons (24 bit
> addresses by default) and for legacy reasons. I heard rumors that newer
> x86 can handle larger flash chips, but AFAIK only with the help of PIO,
> not directly mapped. Similar rule for Qemu.
>
> That said, changing FLASH_MAP_BASE_MIN to
>
> #define FLASH_MAP_BASE_MIN ((hwaddr)(0x100000000ULL - 16*1024*1024))
>
> should work.
>
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel