[LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.

YhLu YhLu at tyan.com
Fri Jun 3 19:17:08 CEST 2005


So you will use asm to enable cache as ram. ----cache_as_ram.inc
and execute the code in ROM ( compiled by gcc) to initialize the RAM.
----auto.c
but the cache only 64k, is it enough?
the cache will be used as stack for function. How about the decompress for
auto.o...
.....
cool

YH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:05 AM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: ebiederman at lnxi.com; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:04 -0700, YhLu wrote:
> > So you make the romcc to support the real function instead 
> of all inline...?
> > 
> 
> With cache as ram, we don't need romcc, everything can be 
> compiled by GCC.
> 
> > YH
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ebiederman at lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman at lnxi.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:20 PM
> > > To: LinuxBIOS
> > > Subject: [LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Check out the new BIOS and Kernel Developers Guide.
> > > 
> > > Eric
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