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

[YhLu]

make the cache_as_ram_auto for init.o to use printk now, 

#if CONFIG_USE_INIT
        printk_debug("linxbios_ram.bin length = %08x\r\n", olen);
#else   
        print_debug("linxbios_ram.bin length = "); print_debug_hex32(olen);
print_debug("\r\n");
#endif

there is some space for optimize code for the raminit and ht init in auto
......

The 8 way system get most benefit from the cache-as-ram solution.
1. with romcc, the compile time may need 5 minutes and can not enable vga
support
2. win cache as ram and gcc, compile only need 23 seconds. ( the same as
four way and two way), and vga support is already enabled.

the system with multi CK804 as slaves can get some benefits too.

YH


> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:58 PM
> To: Ronald G. Minnich; Eric W. Biederman; 'Stefan Reinauer'; Li-Ta Lo
> Cc: LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: [BULK] RE: [LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.
> 
> AMD cache_as_ram first stage done.
> 
> current status
> 1. use gcc to produce auto.inc or init.o 2. it can reboot in 
> fallback 3. it can reboot from fallback to normal 4. it can 
> reboot in normal....
> 
> I'm using auto.c for romcc version
> 	cache_as_ram_auto.c for gcc and via auto.inc version
> 	cache_as_ram_auto.c for gcc and via init.o version
> 
> next stage:
> 1. convert cache_as_ram_init.c version.
> 2. it will use the printk_debug to substitue print_debug 3. 
> create compressed init.o version???? could spare 10k bytes....
> 
> YH
> 
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