the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 6b350da4fd2a1f504340fdeed75c2b916220fab1 Author: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com Date: Thu Feb 16 23:12:04 2012 +0200
Intel cpus: improve CPU compatibility of new CAR
Most or many Xeons have no MSR 0x11e.
I have previously tested that a HT-enabled P4 (model f25) can execute this but will not have cache-as-ram enabled. Should work for non-HT P4.
Change-Id: I28cbfa68858df45a69aa0d5b050cd829d070ad66 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/644 for details.
-gerrit