[LinuxBIOS] Undo all hdama changes.

Jason Schildt jschildt at lnxi.com
Wed Aug 10 18:27:33 CEST 2005


Thanks, YH.  I'll pass these by Tom and make the necessary changes so as
not to break everything.  I'll also submit a diff to the mailing list
before committing.

--jason--

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:17:25AM -0700, yhlu wrote:
> My idea about your changes
> 1. memhole move from raminit.c to northbridge.c, That is goog feature,
> but need to keep my code in init_ecc, to skip the mem hole.
> 2. dual core: create entries in cpu_bus_scan or in amd_sibling_init,
> later one may cause racing, if we disable CPU_INIT_SERILIZE on four
> way dual core and eight dual core. You know we really need to disable
> CPU_INIT_SERIALIZE otherwise init_ecc stage will take too long.
> 8x--->2.1x
> 3. you need to keep incoherent_ht.c ( K8_ALLOCATE_IO), I'm using that
> for multiple CK804 early access...
> 4. ext apic id mode only need for 8 way dual core.
> 5. dual core, if it is disable the apic id of CPU should be the same
> as pre-e0, instead of 0, 2, 4....
> 6. for CAR purpose, I can not k8_init_and_stop_secondaries, because I
> need to go to __reset intead of __jmp to it. (somthing related to
> stack switch).
> 7. We need to use write_irq_tables intead of copy_irq_tables, I have
> append write_irq_tables in every MB irq_tables.c to call
> copy_irq_table.
> 8. You need to keep CK804_DEVN_BASE=0 in some files, according to NV,
> for ck804 if you change unit id, you may lose bus master support.
> 
> YH
> 
> 
> On 8/10/05, Jason Schildt <jschildt at lnxi.com> wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > After looking at the problems this "simple" commit caused, I've rolled
> > it back to the revision before my commit (2005->2003).  I'll go over
> > these changes with Tom and Eric and try again later.
> > My apologies for any broken builds.
> > 
> > --jason--
> > 
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Jason W. Schildt	
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