Re: [coreboot] PCI domains

[yhlu]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, ron minnich  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, yhlu  wrote:
> > one HP's AMD based workstation (like tyan s2895) has that ... one ht
>
> chain
> > ==> one pci domain.
> > you could enable that in BIOS setup. (HP's own BIOS)
>
> Is there any benefit to it?

more than 255 pci buses. think about if you have 32 ht chains...

amd Family 10h cpu could support 16 domains ( 4 bits for domain...)

YH