Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ben Gardner [151116 19:32]: > [The previous email got chopped. This is a re-send.] > > Hi all, > > I have a 16 MB BIOS flash on a fsp_baytrail based design. > > I tried expanding the CBFS to fill the whole space, but found that to > cause a 10-15 sec boot delay.

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Gardner
[The previous email got chopped. This is a re-send.] Hi all, I have a 16 MB BIOS flash on a fsp_baytrail based design. I tried expanding the CBFS to fill the whole space, but found that to cause a 10-15 sec boot delay. The offending code appears to be in cbfs_locate() in lib/cbfs.c: if

[coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Gardner
Hi all, I have a 16 MB BIOS flash on a fsp_baytrail based design. I tried expanding the CBFS to fill the whole space, but found that to cause a 10-15 sec boot delay. The offending code appears to be here: -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
2015-11-16 19:32 GMT+01:00 Ben Gardner : > What is the purpose behind continuing if a bad entry is encountered? > It appears that a 'bad' entry only occurs at the end of the CBFS. With a properly chained CBFS, there are no such entries (except one at the end, maybe), and

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Werner Zeh
Hi Ben. I currently use a Bay Trail design with 16 MB SPI flash of which 14 MB are used for CBFS. I Never have seen such effects on my system. Do you use the latest coreboot tree (master)? Werner Am 16.11.2015 um 19:32 schrieb Ben Gardner: [The previous email got chopped. This is a

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Gardner
Hi Patrick, On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote: > 2015-11-16 19:32 GMT+01:00 Ben Gardner : >> What is the purpose behind continuing if a bad entry is encountered? >> It appears that a 'bad' entry only occurs at the end of the CBFS. >

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Gardner
Hi Stefan, On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ben Gardner [151116 19:32]: >> [The previous email got chopped. This is a re-send.] >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a 16 MB BIOS flash on a fsp_baytrail based design. >> >> I

Re: [coreboot] Long boot delay with a large CBFS

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Gardner
Hi Werner, On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Werner Zeh wrote: > Hi Ben. > > I currently use a Bay Trail design with 16 MB SPI flash > of which 14 MB are used for CBFS. I Never have seen such effects on my > system. > > Do you use the latest coreboot tree (master)? > > Werner