[coreboot] k8 status

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Aug 25 23:03:11 CEST 2008


Marc Jones wrote:
> 1K of stack should still be plenty. If it is being used up we need to
> understand why. Each core should be able to snoop any cache so global
> vars and structs shouldn't be getting passed on the stack. They should
> be in the BSP cache/stack only.
Other CPUs are not required in the scenario? Or is the cache available
between those, too? (I would guess not)

I agree we should not go overboard with the amount of available stack.
If we have 1K, that's perfectly fine. We're not doing KDE4 here.

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