[coreboot] Trouble converting Truxton to CAR

[Dustin Harrison]

On 02/11/2010 3:03 PM, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:43:08AM -0700, Dustin Harrison wrote:
>> Indeed, I enabled the ramtest and see failures starting at 0xCFE14
>> which is inside the CAR space (DCACHE_RAM_SIZE is 0x8000 in my case
>> which should make the CAR range 0xC8000-0xCFFFF).  My (naive) ideas
>> are that either writes are getting sent to the SDRAM which prevents
>> the raminit code from working or that CAR is not being
>> (successfully) disabled after raminit due to some unique feature of
>> this CPU.  The reason I was asking about a method for validating the
>> CAR code for this CPU is because this CPU supports a feature to
>> share memory (for DMA purposes) with an accelerated services unit
>> (ASU).  Thus I jumped to the conclusion that this may affect the CAR
>> routines.
> Maybe. Can you post your patch for review and if possible the URL for
> the CPU datasheet?
>
I'll see what I can do for a patch, but it will be a couple of days 
while I wait for my RDIMM to show up so I can resurrect the Truxton dev 
board.

In the meantime here is the link to the datasheet:
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/ep80579/320066.pdf