Resizable BAR Support Being Prepared For Coreboot

[binarybanana]

What's the point of that, faster graphics in the bios menu and with grub?

No? More like 10+% more FPS in modern games. I think Micheal did a few benchmarks which showed undeniable improvents.

[scottishduck]

What's the point of that, faster graphics in the bios menu and with grub?

ReBAR needs to be set by the BIOS before the OS can make use of it, this allows coreboot to do that.

[Developer12]

What's the point of that, faster graphics in the bios menu and with grub?

More code churn because google would like to offload patches onto the mainline for a secret device they use internally.

[discordian]

What's the point of that, faster graphics in the bios menu and with grub?

[binarybanana]

Great project. If only signed firmware updates weren't so common nowadays...
Even on the "open" PC platform almost everything is as locked down as on smartphones.
It's sad that this makes installing an auditable and secure firmware often impossible.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Resizable BAR Support Being Prepared For Coreboot

Thanks to Google engineers there is Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support being worked on for the open-source Coreboot...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-Resizable-BAR