[coreboot] Some qustion about riscv implement

[ron minnich]

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 7:20 PM Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > I wonder if we should just import libfdt when we need to parse or
> > modify devicetree blobs.  A quick check on the libfdt.a on my
> > system (x86_64) shows that the set of .o files takes about 15kB, so
> > it's not huge.
>
> If the license is compatible I think that's a good idea.
>

yeah, I agree with you both.


>
>
> > I think we should consider splitting the memory-resident part of
> > coreboot on RISC-V into its own stage, similar to the SMM code on x86.
>
> Is there any way a system can work completely without it?
>
>
one way, which I've done, is for a kernel to supply its own code, i.e. move
the responsibility for supplying M-mode code to the kernel and away from
firmware.f

This would remove some concerns people have about run-time firmware, since
there would not be any :-)

ron
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