Hi Jason,
thanks for checking this so fast! On 26.11.2008 01:05, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 24.11.2008 04:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> No VIA's datasheet tell about the location of C7 CAR, and I remember >> once I used an address even lower than 0xFFBF0000 (NOT 0xc8000). Also I >> tried 0xFFBF0000 on my current v2-coreboot just now, the result is ok. >> >> > > Thanks a lot for checking this. > If you find some free time, it would be great if you could test > 0xFEC00000 as well. That location is 20 MB below 4GB and the lowest > location inside the DEVICE_MEM_HIGH protection window where coreboot > will not place any device memory regions, so it is free for ROM and CAR. > If that works, we have found a really collision-free window even for the > biggest SPI ROMs. > 0xFEC00000 with size 0x8000 (32k) works as confirmed by you in IRC. I'll prepare a patch for v2 and v3 to move the VIA CAR location to 0xFEC00000. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
