[LinuxBIOS] selection of compression algorithm

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Wed May 24 20:30:55 CEST 2006


AP: application processor. it mean all processor except BSP
BSP: bootstrap processor. the first cpu is running, and it will start APs.
APC:  I call the code that is running on AP only.

YH


On 5/23/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> yhlu wrote:
> > linuxbios_apc.rom is the code for ap. The code is in it's own cache.
> > So BSP is executing the code in ROM and RAM, and at the same time the
> > APs executing code in cache.
> >
> > The AP uncompress the linuxbios_apc.rom from rom to it's cache before
> > jump it. At that time the RAM on BSP is ready already.
>
> Sorry, can you please explain what AP, APC and BSP are?
>
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> --
> http://www.hailfinger.org/
>




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