[LinuxBIOS] about make LinuxBIOS 64bit for Opteron

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Dec 16 20:05:33 CET 2005


Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> I hate that in LinuxBIOS (CAR and RAM stage) I can not access the range
> above 4G, esp the last 4G in 1T Range.
> 
> I could use fs base to access that, but that is quite slow...


I hate it too. All I am asking is that we take this thing one step at a 
time. We MUST get k8 back on a stable footing before we go on to needed 
features like 64bit mode.

thanks

ron




More information about the coreboot mailing list