Hi,
On 1.03.2023 18:58, baptx wrote:
Hello,
For people who use the 12th generation of Intel Core processors, they may want to disable efficient-cores in the BIOS to improve performance (https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/thp7jh/disabling_the_efficiency_core... https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/thp7jh/disabling_the_efficiency_cores_to_get_performance/), is it supported by coreboot or Dasharo?
Some people may also want to disable performance-cores instead to save more battery (https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/x0xu1c/can_you_disable_perfor... https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/x0xu1c/can_you_disable_performance_cores_to_force_an/), is it supported also?
Intel FSP, which is used to initialize the Intel silicon in coreboot is capable of disabling E and P cores. It is a matter of telling FSP to do it. But I assume you expect a runtime option in the firmware setup, so the answer is no, neither Dasharo nor coreboot supports it at the moment. Currently, the only way to achieve it is a custom coreboot build.
If some of these disabling option are not available, is there any plan to support them and is there a workaround currently?
We have plans from the Dasharo side to include as many options as possible, including core disabling as well. But it will take a lot of time to reach that point without sufficient resources (either financial or developers).
Thanks.
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