Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] New Socket370 and Model 68x for CAR

[Myles Watson]

> > Yes, it tries without the mask, i.e for 681 - 68f it tries 680. Then, if
> > that does not match, it dies with "Unknown CPU".
> > There is no failsafe nor fallback involved. What makes you think there
> > is? It just means adding 1 entry to the table instead of 16.
>
> Ok, if it is not a _fail_safe_ or _fall_back_ why don't we just always do
> this as a default?

My understanding is that barring errata, the stepping shouldn't matter.
Just in case it does, we check it.  If there isn't a specific entry for the
stepping, we go to the "normal" case of using the ops without the stepping
information.
> Why print out a "generic" message?

I think it just means "not-stepping-specific"

Thanks,
Myles