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authorKyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>2014-05-12 15:00:03 +0300
committerKyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>2014-05-14 07:30:20 +0200
commita6130fc8f9c00e0c545389b4e407f0b745435a56 (patch)
treee6256608d70f2765c046c706c821d3db80fe5bdb
parenta823f9b545b4a172c1c0f778b773f9ca13f0791e (diff)
downloadcoreboot-a6130fc8f9c00e0c545389b4e407f0b745435a56.tar.xz
intel: Drop obsolete comments on MTRR usage
Problem with UMA region allocation was fixed when MTRRs changed to use memrange implementation. Change-Id: I420dac30de2836a91596d81f88bb45b46f248532 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/5719 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan@alterapraxis.com>
-rw-r--r--src/include/device/device.h4
-rw-r--r--src/northbridge/intel/fsp_sandybridge/northbridge.c11
-rw-r--r--src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/northbridge.c11
-rw-r--r--src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/northbridge.c11
4 files changed, 0 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/device/device.h b/src/include/device/device.h
index dfebeaa6f8..0ae4f888b3 100644
--- a/src/include/device/device.h
+++ b/src/include/device/device.h
@@ -211,10 +211,6 @@ void fixed_mem_resource(device_t dev, unsigned long index,
/* It is the caller's responsibility to adjust regions such that ram_resource()
* and mmio_resource() do not overlap.
- *
- * Current MTRR setup creates exclusive uncacheable holes for uma_resource()
- * only and these are allowed to overlap any ram_resource(). This approach
- * is used for all UMA except Intel Sandy/IvyBridge.
*/
#define ram_resource(dev, idx, basek, sizek) \
fixed_mem_resource(dev, idx, basek, sizek, IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE)
diff --git a/src/northbridge/intel/fsp_sandybridge/northbridge.c b/src/northbridge/intel/fsp_sandybridge/northbridge.c
index d5b1575d23..2922ca0e6a 100644
--- a/src/northbridge/intel/fsp_sandybridge/northbridge.c
+++ b/src/northbridge/intel/fsp_sandybridge/northbridge.c
@@ -102,17 +102,6 @@ static void add_fixed_resources(struct device *dev, int index)
struct resource *resource;
u32 pcie_config_base, pcie_config_size;
- /* Using uma_resource() here would fail as base & size cannot
- * be used as-is for a single MTRR. This would cause excessive
- * use of MTRRs.
- *
- * Use of mmio_resource() instead does not create UC holes by using
- * MTRRs, but making these regions uncacheable is taken care of by
- * making sure they do not overlap with any ram_resource().
- *
- * The resources can be changed to use separate mmio_resource()
- * calls after MTRR code is able to merge them wisely.
- */
mmio_resource(dev, index++, uma_memory_base >> 10, uma_memory_size >> 10);
if (get_pcie_bar(&pcie_config_base, &pcie_config_size)) {
diff --git a/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/northbridge.c b/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/northbridge.c
index d94bc09ba8..639d24568b 100644
--- a/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/northbridge.c
+++ b/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/northbridge.c
@@ -134,17 +134,6 @@ static void mc_read_resources(device_t dev)
ram_resource(dev, 3, 0, 640);
ram_resource(dev, 4, 768, ((tseg_base >> 10) - 768));
- /* Using uma_resource() here would fail as base & size cannot
- * be used as-is for a single MTRR. This would cause excessive
- * use of MTRRs.
- *
- * Use of mmio_resource() instead does not create UC holes by using
- * MTRRs, but making these regions uncacheable is taken care of by
- * making sure they do not overlap with any ram_resource().
- *
- * The resources can be changed to use separate mmio_resource()
- * calls after MTRR code is able to merge them wisely.
- */
mmio_resource(dev, 5, tseg_base >> 10, CONFIG_SMM_TSEG_SIZE >> 10);
reg16 = pci_read_config16(dev_find_slot(0, PCI_DEVFN(0, 0)), D0F0_GGC);
diff --git a/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/northbridge.c b/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/northbridge.c
index 5440140089..1fd252bcc0 100644
--- a/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/northbridge.c
+++ b/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/northbridge.c
@@ -100,17 +100,6 @@ static void add_fixed_resources(struct device *dev, int index)
struct resource *resource;
u32 pcie_config_base, pcie_config_size;
- /* Using uma_resource() here would fail as base & size cannot
- * be used as-is for a single MTRR. This would cause excessive
- * use of MTRRs.
- *
- * Use of mmio_resource() instead does not create UC holes by using
- * MTRRs, but making these regions uncacheable is taken care of by
- * making sure they do not overlap with any ram_resource().
- *
- * The resources can be changed to use separate mmio_resource()
- * calls after MTRR code is able to merge them wisely.
- */
mmio_resource(dev, index++, uma_memory_base >> 10, uma_memory_size >> 10);
if (get_pcie_bar(&pcie_config_base, &pcie_config_size)) {