On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Myles Watson wrote: > >> What about we stop the spew rather than changing the algorithm? > >> > > I think both need to be done. On a mainboard with many devices it > > seems silly to keep looking through the same two CBFS entries for > > ROMs. Is there a reason to do it that way that I'm missing? > > > Well, it's quite against the device centric model we have at the > moment... That made me hesitate. > That's a valid point. Now I wonder how it could be implemented so that we get the precedence of CBFS then ROM if it exists correct, so that only one gets executed. > But your reasons are very sound. It's quite a lot of cbfs accesses, and > generally I guess walking the device tree (in coreboot it's even a > memory op, and not a pci config space op) is cheaper than walking all of > the rom all of the time.. It's not a show-stopper for me, but I thought I'd bring it up when I came to it. Thanks, Myles
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