Number of resets in 1.1.5
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Wed Oct 15 12:54:00 CEST 2003
Stefan Reinauer <stepan at suse.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> LinuxBIOS 1.1.5 currently does a couple of resets on the HDAMA before it
> actually boots the payload. Is this elementary for getting HT to work
> properly, or is it based on the current algorithm?
A reset is necessary for the change in settings to take effect.
The current algorithm is stupid and makes all of those decisions locally.
> To keep boot times as
> short as possible, it'd be better to only do one reset and gather all
> setup functions that need reset before that.
Right. I am not quite certain what the most maintainable technique
really is.
I am tempted to put off initializing most of RAM until someplace
in the main body of the code, and have a variable I can set to tell
the code I would like to do a reset.
Mostly I figured make it work properly today. Optimize it tomorrow.
Eric
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