diff --git a/src/arch/x86/include/arch/acpi.h b/src/arch/x86/include/arch/acpi.h
index 030745d5ab..504d71b4f5 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/include/arch/acpi.h
+++ b/src/arch/x86/include/arch/acpi.h
@@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ void *acpi_get_wakeup_rsdp(void);
 void acpi_jump_to_wakeup(void *wakeup_addr);
 
 int acpi_get_sleep_type(void);
-
+#else
+#define acpi_slp_type 0
 #endif
 
 /* northbridge/amd/amdfam10/amdfam10_acpi.c */
@@ -434,6 +435,7 @@ void generate_cpu_entries(void);
 #else // CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLES
 
 #define write_acpi_tables(start) (start)
+#define acpi_slp_type 0
 
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/Kconfig b/src/cpu/x86/Kconfig
index d2809f8fe8..68946227b9 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/Kconfig
@@ -40,4 +40,6 @@ config LOGICAL_CPUS
 	bool
 	default y
 
-
+config CACHE_ROM
+	bool
+	default n
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/lapic/Makefile.inc b/src/cpu/x86/lapic/Makefile.inc
index af20956a9a..f3fcadc0a7 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/lapic/Makefile.inc
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/lapic/Makefile.inc
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ ramstage-y += lapic.c
 ramstage-y += lapic_cpu_init.c
 ramstage-y += secondary.S
 ramstage-$(CONFIG_UDELAY_LAPIC) += apic_timer.c
+ramstage-y += boot_cpu.c
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/lapic/boot_cpu.c b/src/cpu/x86/lapic/boot_cpu.c
index 87418d0883..0fb9d5d35c 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/lapic/boot_cpu.c
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/lapic/boot_cpu.c
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+#include <cpu/x86/lapic.h>
 #include <cpu/x86/msr.h>
 
 #if CONFIG_SMP
-static int boot_cpu(void)
+int boot_cpu(void)
 {
 	int bsp;
 	msr_t msr;
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/mtrr/mtrr.c b/src/cpu/x86/mtrr/mtrr.c
index 46d8e2d4c7..9015ad4d97 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/mtrr/mtrr.c
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/mtrr/mtrr.c
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@
 #include <cpu/x86/msr.h>
 #include <cpu/x86/mtrr.h>
 #include <cpu/x86/cache.h>
+#include <cpu/x86/lapic.h>
 #include <arch/cpu.h>
+#include <arch/acpi.h>
 
 #if CONFIG_GFXUMA
 extern uint64_t uma_memory_base, uma_memory_size;
@@ -48,7 +50,6 @@ static unsigned int mtrr_msr[] = {
 	MTRRfix4K_E0000_MSR, MTRRfix4K_E8000_MSR, MTRRfix4K_F0000_MSR, MTRRfix4K_F8000_MSR,
 };
 
-
 void enable_fixed_mtrr(void)
 {
 	msr_t msr;
@@ -456,6 +457,17 @@ void x86_setup_var_mtrrs(unsigned int address_bits, unsigned int above4gb)
 	while(var_state.reg < MTRRS) {
 		set_var_mtrr(var_state.reg++, 0, 0, 0, var_state.address_bits);
 	}
+
+#if CONFIG_CACHE_ROM
+	/* Enable Caching and speculative Reads for the
+	 * complete ROM now that we actually have RAM.
+	 */
+	if (boot_cpu() && (acpi_slp_type != 3)) {
+		set_var_mtrr(7, (4096-4)*1024, 4*1024,
+			MTRR_TYPE_WRPROT, address_bits);
+	}
+#endif
+
 	printk(BIOS_SPEW, "call enable_var_mtrr()\n");
 	enable_var_mtrr();
 	printk(BIOS_SPEW, "Leave %s\n", __func__);
diff --git a/src/include/cpu/x86/lapic.h b/src/include/cpu/x86/lapic.h
index 68608edab1..2215ec7ee5 100644
--- a/src/include/cpu/x86/lapic.h
+++ b/src/include/cpu/x86/lapic.h
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) void lapic_wait_icr_idle(void)
 	do { } while ( lapic_read( LAPIC_ICR ) & LAPIC_ICR_BUSY );
 }
 
-
-
 static inline void enable_lapic(void)
 {
 
@@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) unsigned long lapicid(void)
 	return lapic_read(LAPIC_ID) >> 24;
 }
 
-
+#ifndef __ROMCC__
 #if CONFIG_AP_IN_SIPI_WAIT != 1
 /* If we need to go back to sipi wait, we use the long non-inlined version of
  * this function in lapic_cpu_init.c
@@ -156,4 +154,7 @@ int start_cpu(struct device *cpu);
 
 #endif /* !__PRE_RAM__ */
 
+int boot_cpu(void);
+#endif
+
 #endif /* CPU_X86_LAPIC_H */