On 6/6/10 5:42 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote:
I think it is mostly because there is memory init done by APs. Is this true for some board?
Afaik it's "ECC clearing" which is implemented several times in the tree, including stage2. It needs no PCI access nor console output, though... and parallelizing the burden of PCI config space writes is not where the speedup lives.
Stefan