[LinuxBIOS] quadcore opteron

[Fridel Fainshtein]

Hi,

Does quad core opteron needs some special software?
If yes, is there any supporting open source code?
(May be just first steps, cache as ram etc.)

Thanks

[yhlu]

On 9/7/07, Fridel Fainshtein  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does quad core opteron needs some special software?
> If yes, is there any supporting open source code?
> (May be just first steps, cache as ram etc.)

before I was leaving AMD,
1. the code works well in simulator even with 64node...
2. on the real silicon, the code could run on seregenti_cheetah...,
but still need some time to debug the mem code (workaround silicon
bug)... ===> anyway it was too late/hard for me to get chip and i
didn't have enough to time to test it....

the code is quite different to dual core opteron...

YH

[Marc Jones]

Fridel Fainshtein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does quad core opteron needs some special software?
> If yes, is there any supporting open source code?
> (May be just first steps, cache as ram etc.)
>
> Thanks

Barcelona is very similar to the Opteron but does require some new 
initialization code. We are working on it and should have something to 
release in the next few months.
Marc

[yhlu]

On 9/10/07, Marc Jones  wrote:
> Barcelona is very similar to the Opteron but does require some new
> initialization code.

???

YH

[David Hendricks]

Two words: extra crispy ;-)

On 9/11/07, yhlu  wrote:
> On 9/10/07, Marc Jones  wrote:
> > Barcelona is very similar to the Opteron but does require some new
> > initialization code.
>
> ???
>
> YH