[PATCH 1/7] x86: fsp: Don't program MTRR for DRAM

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 04:53:05 CEST 2021


Hi Simon,

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 3:19 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bin,
>
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 at 02:45, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This actually reverts the following 2 commits:
> >
> > commit 427911001809 ("x86: Set up the MTRR for SDRAM")
> > commit d46c0932a9d4 ("x86: fsp: Adjust calculations for MTRR range and DRAM top")
> >
> > There are several outstanding issues as to why:
> >
> > * For FSP1, the system memory and reserved memory used by FSP are
> >   already programmed in the MTRR by FSP.
> > * The 'mtrr_top' mistakenly includes TSEG memory range that has the
> >   same RES_MEM_RESERVED resource type. Its address is programmed
> >   and reported by FSP to be near the top of 4 GiB space, which is
> >   not what we want for SDRAM.
> > * The call to mtrr_add_request() is not guaranteed to have its size
> >   to be exactly the power of 2. This causes reserved bits of the
> >   IA32_MTRR_PHYSMASK register to be written which generates #GP.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  arch/x86/lib/fsp/fsp_dram.c | 35 ++++++++++-------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> Unfortunately this makes coral (FSP2) go *very* slowly. Can you
> perhaps do this change just for FSP1?

Sure will do that in v2.

Regards,
Bin


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