答复: 答复: Tyan Changes for 1.1.6

[YhLu]

> Eric,
> 
> In the 1.1.6, you have move clearing memory from auto.c to k8/cpufixup.c.
Is
> there any way to disable it for fast booting?

Don't enable ECC.

Memory clearing is only done for correctness.  ECC memory does not
work properly unless initialized.

I think the Opteron setup now is down to the minimal needed for
things to work.  You only observe one reset correct?


YHLU: One reset is right, but the output of the very beginning is not neat.

> 1. AMD 8131: ioapic : PCI master mem/io enable. The segment I have added
in
> old version, in 1.1.6 Eric remove that. --- It is needed for other MBs
> except arima --because it connects all apic to 8111.

As Ron mentioned later this needs a comment.  In the general case we should
not be enabling bus master DMA by default.  I tend to remove bus master
enables before remembering any special circumstances of the chip.


YHLU: but the code in amd8131_bridge.c and not in general code. (devices
dir)

> 2. Some correction in AMD8151.
> 3. Add superio/Winbond/w83627hf.

Thanks that looks correct.  And it was nice to see my changes were
that simple to follow.

> 4. other changs in tyan dir.  (auto.c failover.c cmos.layout from arima
dir)
> 	(Config.lb changes for option_table.h building and superio ...)
> 	(Increase the heap size to make elfboot work).

Hmm.  Can we throw in a sanity check to ensure we don't run out of heap?
I assume that is what was happening.

Does the 4-way s4880 work?  I'm not quite certain how my changes would
affect it.

YHLU: I will double check that, it not, need to increade the heap size
again.

Eric
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