Cache On and ECC clear

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Sun Mar 28 23:41:39 CEST 2004


On 28 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:


> But please break it out into it's own separate inline function.
> 
> It has two very strong requirements.
> 1) That we never trigger a hardware read on the addresses were are clearing
>    before we have triggered a hardware write.  The fact I setup the area
>    as uncached but write-combining ensures this.
> 2) That this code runs very fast.  It needs to be able to run at 6.4GB/s
>    when you have dual channel PC3200 DDR installed.  This is one of the
>    reasons we run it on a per cpu basis.  The loop can only run at 4.0GB/s
>    from the other cpu.
> 

ok, if it stays assembly this explanation will be put in with it. 

ron




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