Patrick Rudolph has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/44781 )
Change subject: Documentation: Update releasenotes for x86_64 ......................................................................
Documentation: Update releasenotes for x86_64
Change-Id: I7d8d39bde3b3364ff6ce93030aa2bab34598acd8 Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph siro@das-labor.org --- M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.13-relnotes.md 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/81/44781/1
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.13-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.13-relnotes.md index dcc8bf4..626e9a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.13-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.13-relnotes.md @@ -49,4 +49,13 @@ CPU threads as possible limited only by SMRAM space and not by 64K. By default this loader version is disabled. Please see cpu/x86/Kconfig for more info.
+### Initial support for x86_64 support + +The x86_64 code support has been revived and enabled for qemu. While it started +as PoC and the only supported platform is an emulator, there's interrest in +enabling additional platforms. It would allow to access more than 4GiB of memory +at runtime and possibly brings optimised code for faster execution times. +It still needs changes in assembly, fixed integer to pointer conversions in C, +wrappers for BLOBs, support fpr running Option ROMs ... + ### Add significant changes here