[coreboot] [PATCH] model_65x CPU support

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 04:34:58 CEST 2010


On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Keith Hui <buurin at gmail.com> wrote:
> But a bit of scheduling headache then awaits. How much CPU init do we
> need to do before we start drawing things in from the cbfs? Is there
> anything that cannot be done until microcode updates are loaded? Is
> cpu_dev_ops.init() an appropriate place to access cbfs? If not, from
> where?

Microcode updates are, from my understanding, typically not extremely
important. IMO, including them in coreboot should be a Kconfig option,
because it's probably faster to let just linux load them (but other
OS's may not have that ability).

-Corey




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