I hate that in LinuxBIOS (CAR and RAM stage) I can not access the range above 4G, esp the last 4G in 1T Range.
I could use fs base to access that, but that is quite slow...
YH
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@openbios.org] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:53 AM To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: Lu, Yinghai; Li-Ta Lo; Eric W. Biederman; LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: about make LinuxBIOS 64bit for Opteron
* Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [051216 19:35]:
I think we have to do it.
That said, BEFORE this effort starts, I want to make sure that EVERY SINGLE OPTERON TARGET works as well as it did 6 months ago. And, currently, I don't think that is the case -- see ward's letter.
We need to get this code base back to being more solid than it
currently is.
I fully agree. We should make a feature freeze and only let changes in that fix something until we _verified_ that all (K8) mainboards are working and on the same level (ie. equal cmos layouts, dual core, car enabled, etc pp.)
One step at a time. We just recovered.
Besides that, 64bit is a must, no doubt.
Stefan