[coreboot] [PATCH] more Kconfig default fixes

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 9:37 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger; Stefan Reinauer; coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] more Kconfig default fixes
> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > All I'm looking for is the shortest path to "not-broken".  I'm open to
> > suggestions.
> 
> So I've had this explained to me several times, let's try again.
> 
> In fact it's in the v2 code. It's just that the v2 code is so hard to read
> ...
> 
> 1. BSP core 0 starts up in CAR. 
All other cores start up and put themselves to sleep ASAP.

> BSP core 0 sets up DRAM programming
> for ALL sockets. BPS gets CBFS
>    files in RAM. BSP zeros memory attached to BSP.
> 2. BSP uses IPIs to set up all AP stacks and EIP. AP core 0s start up.
> They do what initialization they need (e.g.
>    zero their own DRAM). They then stop.
> 2a. BSP waits for all AP core 0 to either stop or error out.
> 3. BPS starts up core>0 and sends IPIs to get APs to start up core>0.
> 4. All core 0s wait for all core>0 to stop or error out.
> 5. BSP waits for all AP core0 to stop again.
> 6. BSP continues to boot.
> 
> Is there a problem with this sequence?

I don't think so. 

The reason we're back on this topic is because we're having trouble nailing
down the correct values for CONFIG_STACK and CONFIG_HEAP.  I just noticed
that they don't actually matter in CAR, so we have RAM by the time we even
check those values.

Thanks,
Myles