[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: VIA C7 CAR

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 17:37:24 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> XIP could never perform better than fetching from cache except if the
> cache is broken.

If cache is broken, CAR is not going to work very well, we have no
stack --> we're not going to boot anyway ...

I think we let the guys who make the chips deal with broken cache issues.

I am unable to see the need for XIP at this point but I am willing to
be shown that I am wrong.

ron




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