Kyösti Mälkki said:
> AFAICS, that platform codebase even suffers from cache coherency issues
> while executing from cache-as-ram; there has been indications that
> increased spinlock usage in romstage causes boot failures and/or reset
> loops.
>
Where do you see this? Has it been reported?
Implementation of HyperTransport requires maintaining some pretty strange
> (or poor-quality) code for both static devicetree and PCI subsystem.
>
Which code? How can it be improved?
Sincerely,
-Matthew Bradley
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:25 PM Kyösti Mälkki <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:05 AM Martin Roth <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > My proposal is to drop platforms that aren't being tested, aren't
> > being maintained, or are causing serious problems with general
> > coreboot development.
> >
> > For example
> > - ASUS KGPE-d16 is still being used and tested, so I wouldn't suggest
> > dropping that code, even though it apparently doesn't support S3, so
> > it was suggested that we drop it. S3 isn't used heavily on servers,
> > so personally I don't think it matters.
>
> Nothing to do with S3 for asus/kgpe-d16 deprecation.
>
> Platform code (non-AGESA) fam10-15 does not meet 3 of the 3 announced
> requirements for next release. Should someone want to maintain
> kgpe-d16 on master branch, the decisions on those release requirements
> will need to be officially withdrawn. AFAICS, that platform codebase
> even suffers from cache coherency issues while executing from
> cache-as-ram; there has been indications that increased spinlock usage
> in romstage causes boot failures and/or reset loops.
>
> Implementation of HyperTransport requires maintaining some pretty
> strange (or poor-quality) code for both static devicetree and PCI
> subsystem.
>
> Regards,
> Kyösti Mälkki
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