You can grep for commits containing b:65442212 or b:111610455 to see the
work required to remove AGESA from bootblock.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:22 AM Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.mal...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 6:53 PM Michal Zygowski
> <michal.zygow...@3mdeb.com> wrote:
> >> I get the overall idea of C bootblock. The most fun is about the
> > assembly to setup CAR early. But what about S3 suspend/resume for APU2
> > for example? It is not supported by the platform and does not seem to be
> > needed at all there (it is just a router which should be always on).
> > Maybe the check for RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE should be omitted when
> > HAVE_ACPI_RESUME is not set for the platform? However the thing is all
> > about southbridge/northbridge code still.
>
> You should consider binaryPI mostly broken for the purpose of S3
> suspend/resume. I did not understand what you mean about a
> RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE check.
>
> AMD never got S3 right for open-source AGESA and I think they
> struggled long to get it right for amd/stoneyridge. I believe S3
> resume path is PSP assisted. When x86 core reset is deasserted some
> parts of the memory controller PHY have already been programmed by PSP
> or SMU firmwares. I have been told that later AGESAv5 firmwares do not
> have the capability of "MRC cache" to speed up cold boot as they lack
> the (x86) code to replay memory training parameters from non-volatile
> memory.
>
> >> That stoneyridge thing is interesting... Cannot imagine what it could be
> > called for such early.
>
> A lot of that review is public in gerrit, maybe January-March 2017.
>
> Regards,
> Kyösti Mälkki
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