On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:28 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM, mrnuke mr.nuke.me@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 03:56:46 AM Andrew Wu wrote:
Yes, that is right. DMP/Vortex86EX has no MTRR. So it maybe a problem if without romcc. :(
Is there any way whatsoever to temporarily use the cache as SRAM?
when we did the first real CAR work MTRRs were not needed. I'm not sure if they would be on the vortex. We might want to test the very early CAR code and see how it goes. It's actually quite simple.
Also, let's just take it a little easy here. These are proposals, nothing is ever perfect on first release, the world is not ending, Google is not showing up at coreboot.org in skimasks and unmarked uniforms ...
I think a fork would harm everyone, and would be destructive of our common goals. Please remember that we are all trying to do the right thing, and our different situations give us different perspectives.
Nobody is coming in here with bad motives. We're just trying to muddle our way through the many demands of different stakeholders now that coreboot, thanks to the efforts of some pretty dedicated people, has become a runaway success.
I've been thinking about it all day and it seems Vladimir is pretty much spot on, "The proposition of gatekeepers would essentially kill community effort."
Was Stefan's governance change discussed at any level before announcement? Will he discuss it now?
Here's to hoping we can work together. I might be able to contribute to that IOAPIC thorn you've got.
David
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David Hubbard