[coreboot] Cache aliasing

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:06:37 -0700, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> If all of the above is true, it should be possible to use CAR on every
>> processor which has a fine-grained memory range cache control like MTRR.
>> Simply make sure the cacheable area is smaller than cache size and
>> smaller than the minimum aliasing distance, switch caches on and be
>> happy. (External hardware may need to be told it should not trigger
>> invalidation.)
>> Is it really that easy?
> 
> 
> Eswar, the guy who got us over the hard parts of CAR, indicated that
> it was really that easy; that all you needed to know about CAR was in
> Vol. III, you just had to know how to read it (in particular, that CD
> does not mean Cache Disable).
>