[coreboot] [RFH] Native AMD fam10-15 support

[Taiidan at gmx.com]

On 06/13/2018 04:12 PM, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Now that we wiped out K8, I'd like to put my eyes on fam10-15 boards.
What exactly do you mean by wiped out?

> 
> Couple questions for board owners:
> 
> First, about asus/kcma-d8 and asus/kgpe-d16: Do these have working S3
> support? I remember rumours they originally worked at some point, but
> regressed during the rebase / upstream process. Anyone willing to
> bisect/fix it if necessary?
> 

I have a D16 with v4.6 that I regularly use suspend with and it works
absolutely fine - I can also suspend a host featuring a guest with IOMMU
graphics and then resume that host later on and continue playing video
games on the guest.

> I am asking, because these are the last two remaining boards with
> combination of HAVE_ACPI_RESUME=y and RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE=n, and we
> have to drag along some back-and-forth memory copy code to keep OS
> memory intact for these two.
> 
> Second, I would like to move forwards with AMD fam10 to have
> RELOCATABE_RAMSTAGE=y, that would also solve above-mentioned issue and
> open up doors for some new features.
> 
> If it was my decision, RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE for x86 would be one
> criteria to survive the next (October 2018?) release. POSTCAR_STAGE
> for May 2019. I am probably too late to make such wishes, but I hope
> these will happen in the next two years nevertheless.

I again state my for-some-reason controversial opinion that at this rate
there will soon be no non-development boards in coreboot due to the
choices of the current leadership in determining standards.

Removing something from master is in fact removal from coreboot - one of
the reasons is as over time the older versions of software required to
compile older versions of coreboot will become un-obtainable already to
compile master critical old GPL code is only obtainable from one obscure
non-US site.