On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:53:24PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > It's not a very generic fix. It's basically a compile time decision > > > whether to use SPI or LPC on SB600 chipsets. > > > > I understand. It works around the hang for me. > > But it breaks all SB600 boards with SPI flash.
Ah, I didn't realize that. > > > Is there no way we can detect what the system booted from? > > > > Is that what should decide which rom to flash? > > I think that is the best we can do at this point. > > > Are there scenarios where that would cause problems? > > I can't think of one. Do you have something in mind? I was wondering if there would be a case where you boot from an SPI rom and wanted to flash PLCC or something like that. But let's ignore that for now. > > I suppose the 'easiest' way to fix this would be adding a command > > line option that forces LPC/SPI? > > It just makes me really sad and annoyed to require manual control > like that when the SB600 for all other flash chip purposes is totally > excellent - nice and simple! I just don't want to believe that noone > thought of mirroring the boot straps in some register. Oh, that would be very sad indeed. > > Or, perhaps make the decision based on which board is detected? > > Could do - would require every SB600 board to have an explicit > board_enable entry.. Or maybe just the ones that we know have LPC? That's what I was thinking. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
