[LinuxBIOS] LNXI Merge: lnxi-patch-15/16

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 05:47:03 CEST 2005


I agree.

The cache_as_ram_auto.c should be the same to all Opteron MB except for 
1 spd rom related.
2 superio related

Other thing is need to consider apic id lifting.

So i consider change that to 

#include "auto_1.c"
int someting spd and superio related
#include "auto_2.c"


YH

On 9/6/05, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> wrote:
> 
> "Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu at amd.com> writes:
> 
> > I tried to make cache_as_ram_auto.c more smaller, the problem is
> > I can not use jmp __cpu_reset, and I need use goto cpu_reset_x
> 
> The practical problem was not how much the code had to do
> (except for failover.c) but instead how little of that code
> was in common functions, and instead was per-motherboard.
> Implementing on one motherboard while experimenting is fine but when
> you go multi-board too much cut and paste is dangerous.
> 
> The first round of dual core and cache as ram code feels
> like an old style adventure game:
> 
> You have now entered a twisty maze of ifdefs.
> 
> Eric
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