[coreboot] [PATCH][v2] Unify CAR for K8 and Fam10h CPUs

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Feb 17 13:50:31 CET 2009


Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am Freitag 13 Februar 2009 14:44:20 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
>   
>> I created a patch against a tree with your original patch applied. It
>> should be able to handle all generations since the invention of CPUID
>> just fine. Fam11h and later are handled as well.
>>     
> Looks nice, and I tested it in SimNow after some trivial changes to make it 
> build. I think it's ready for integration now.
>
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>   
> What this patch does:
> 1. Enable SSE (to get some more registers to play with)
> 2. Determine CPUID, and stash it in an XMM register, and reference
>    value for comparison in another XMM register (mangled somewhat to
>    simplify inequality comparisons)
> 3. Add a macro jmp_if_k8, which jumps if the CPU is K8 (using an SSE compare)
> 4. Replace #if CAR_FAM10 sections with runtime checks using jmp_if_k8.
>    This is pretty mechanical work. The macro uses local labels (1: and 2:) to
>    prevent namespace issues
> 5. At one time, CPU_ADDR_BITS is used to fill a register. This is replaced
>    with hardcoded values for both cases, and switched appropriately.
> 6. Disable SSE
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick.georgi at coresystems.de>

Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>



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