[coreboot] r1056 - in coreboot-v3/arch/x86: . intel/core2

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Nov 27 21:51:20 CET 2008


On 26.11.2008 00:10, svn at coreboot.org wrote:
> Author: stepan
> Date: 2008-11-26 00:10:24 +0100 (Wed, 26 Nov 2008)
> New Revision: 1056
>
> Modified:
>    coreboot-v3/arch/x86/Kconfig
>    coreboot-v3/arch/x86/intel/core2/stage0.S
> Log:
> hack to make v3 rom access a lot faster.
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
>   

This commit likely breaks support for some Core 2 processors (it will
make CAR fail due to random eviction of cache lines) and I believe it
was the reason why the tree didn't work anymore for Stefan.

Detailed explanation:
CAR is 32k cache. (unchanged)
XIP is 1024k cache. (new)
Cache types for both are the same. On a processor with 1024k cache (Core
2 Solo), this will cause CAR and XIP not to fit into the cache together.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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