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authorXavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.cat>2011-02-26 23:29:44 +0000
committerPeter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>2011-02-26 23:29:44 +0000
commit4c28a6f01870e017dbedb4a0bba1e91148077040 (patch)
treebf45e9ef2d9d7755cdf70321ae371ab395b631d7 /src/cpu
parent837403dddf7b05b1a2b1a09a2cd57975484c7568 (diff)
downloadcoreboot-4c28a6f01870e017dbedb4a0bba1e91148077040.tar.xz
Make AMD Fam10h CPU microcode updates optional in Expert mode
Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.cat> Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@6385 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
Diffstat (limited to 'src/cpu')
-rw-r--r--src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Kconfig32
-rw-r--r--src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Makefile.inc3
-rw-r--r--src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/init_cpus.c2
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Kconfig b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Kconfig
index 539e1116a8..6aab30a6f2 100644
--- a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Kconfig
+++ b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Kconfig
@@ -50,3 +50,35 @@ config SET_FIDVID_CORE_RANGE
endif
endif
+
+config UPDATE_CPU_MICROCODE
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config UPDATE_CPU_MICROCODE
+ bool "Update CPU microcode"
+ default y
+ depends on EXPERT && CPU_AMD_MODEL_10XXX
+ help
+ Select this to apply patches to the CPU microcode provided by
+ AMD without source, and distributed with coreboot, to address
+ issues in the CPU post production.
+
+ Microcode updates distributed with coreboot are not necessarily
+ the latest version available from AMD. Updates are only applied
+ if they are newer than the microcode already in your CPU.
+
+ Unselect this to let Fam10h CPUs run with microcode as shipped
+ from factory. No binary microcode patches will be included in the
+ coreboot image in that case, which can help with creating an image
+ for which complete source code is available, which in turn might
+ simplify license compliance.
+
+ Microcode updates intend to solve issues that have been discovered
+ after CPU production. The common case is that systems work as
+ intended with updated microcode, but we have also seen cases where
+ issues were solved by not applying the microcode updates.
+
+ Note that some operating system include these same microcode
+ patches, so you may need to also disable microcode updates in
+ your operating system in order for this option to matter.
diff --git a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Makefile.inc b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Makefile.inc
index 5b0a89de49..35f32c2d65 100644
--- a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Makefile.inc
+++ b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/Makefile.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# no conditionals here. If you include this file from a socket, then you get all the binaries.
driver-y += model_10xxx_init.c
-ramstage-y += update_microcode.c
+ramstage-$(CONFIG_UPDATE_CPU_MICROCODE) += update_microcode.c
ramstage-y += apic_timer.c
ramstage-y += processor_name.c
diff --git a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/init_cpus.c b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/init_cpus.c
index cd3c23496a..c21a13551c 100644
--- a/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/init_cpus.c
+++ b/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/init_cpus.c
@@ -325,7 +325,9 @@ static u32 init_cpus(u32 cpu_init_detectedx)
* This happens after HTinit.
* The BSP runs this code in it's own path.
*/
+#if CONFIG_UPDATE_CPU_MICROCODE
update_microcode(cpuid_eax(1));
+#endif
cpuSetAMDMSR();
#if CONFIG_SET_FIDVID