[coreboot] [PATCH] Convert all Intel i810 boards to CAR

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 21:12:20 CEST 2010


>> >Does that mean that FC_PGA370 is simply PGA370 + CAR, or do PGA370 sockets
>> >really not support SSE2 chips?
>
> Not sure if the socket is the correct place to "select" either of
> MMX/SSE/SSE2 anyway, that's a CPU-property and should probably be
> selected in model_* (even if for newer CPUs all of those are always "y").

Here's a quote from Stefan:

http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2010-March/056586.html

"I think we should be careful as
this easily breaks the code in very nasty places (especially SSE chooses
the registers for ROMCC, so this definitely breaks some boards)

"The settings have to be the most conservative, not the best possible.
That means if there is a single CPU for a socket that does not have SSE,
SSE has to be off for that socket. Choosing SSE to be on because there
is a single CPU for that socket that has SSE will break other systems."

Thanks,
Myles




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