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LCA: Chrome OS and open firmwareLCA: Chrome OS and open firmwarePosted Feb 14, 2013 8:18 UTC (Thu) by idupree (subscriber, #71169)Parent article: LCA: Chrome OS and open firmware
article: "Other interesting differences include the fact that coreboot's first stage ("bootblock") is written partly in assembly, but partly in C that is compiled with romcc"
wikipedia: "[romcc] is now obsolete for coreboot because the coreboot project uses "cache as RAM", enabling an ordinary C compiler to be used." which cites a 2009 article "We also decided to say bye bye to ROMCC, since it was this well-intended, but unmaintainable piece of 26k lines of code in a single file." http://www.h-online.com/open/features/About-ROMCC-and-V3-...
Which is most correct? :)
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LCA: Chrome OS and open firmware Posted Feb 14, 2013 18:44 UTC (Thu) by iceblink (subscriber, #19982) [Link]
ROMCC is still used, but as little as possible. These days it is only for the very early bootblock code before Cache-as-RAM is initialized.
The Coreboot V3 rewrite never quite took hold...
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