[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: VIA C7 CAR

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun Oct 12 14:44:18 CEST 2008


On 11.10.2008 22:32, ron minnich wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Vincent Legoll
> <vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Would using a small bit of XIP code enable us to detect broken cache
>> and report that fact (post code, beep code, serial console printk) 
>
> if somebody wants to put it in early assembly I guess that's fine. But
> "broken" is very very tricky to really find.
>
> trivially broken is not too hard however.
>   


We already have some code in the various stage0 implementations which
can test for really obvious brokenness. The biggest problem with that
code is that it needs some work and the multiple variants should be
consolidated into one. This is on my (rather long) ToDo-List.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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