[LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.

Greg Watson gwatson at lanl.gov
Fri Jun 3 19:53:10 CEST 2005


Cache on the PPC is only 8K. It seems to work fine.

Greg

On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:17 AM, YhLu wrote:

> So you will use asm to enable cache as ram. ----cache_as_ram.inc
> and execute the code in ROM ( compiled by gcc) to initialize the RAM.
> ----auto.c
> but the cache only 64k, is it enough?
> the cache will be used as stack for function. How about the  
> decompress for
> auto.o...
> .....
> cool
>
> YH
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov]
>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:05 AM
>> To: YhLu
>> Cc: ebiederman at lnxi.com; LinuxBIOS
>> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:04 -0700, YhLu wrote:
>>
>>> So you make the romcc to support the real function instead
>>>
>> of all inline...?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> With cache as ram, we don't need romcc, everything can be
>> compiled by GCC.
>>
>>
>>> YH
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ebiederman at lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman at lnxi.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:20 PM
>>>> To: LinuxBIOS
>>>> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Check out the new BIOS and Kernel Developers Guide.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
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>> Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov>
>> Los Alamos National Lab
>>
>>
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