[coreboot] patch; fix Makefile.romccboard.inc with new MMX and SSE variables
ron minnich
rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 19:10:31 CEST 2009
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>> failover.inc MUST come after enable_sse or your CPU will hang.
>
> Can you say why?
yes. if you compile failover.c with romcc options that include sse,
then you'll see code like this in failover.inc:
mov eax, %xmm0
This will hang if you have not first enabled sse. Verified yesterday
on the dell s1850.
>
> Does it hang in the SSE code or in the failover code?
It will hang in failover code, if that code was compiled with sse.
>
> Does this mean that failover requires SSE in order to work?
no, but if it uses sse, it will hang.
> Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
There's still one last bit of cleanup if this patch works: the
makefile options for romcc need to depend on the cpu type.
But one thing at a time.
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