[coreboot] k8 status

Marc Jones Marc.Jones at amd.com
Tue Aug 26 00:00:21 CEST 2008


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Marc Jones wrote:
>> 1K of stack should still be plenty. If it is being used up we need to
>> understand why. Each core should be able to snoop any cache so global
>> vars and structs shouldn't be getting passed on the stack. They should
>> be in the BSP cache/stack only.
> Other CPUs are not required in the scenario? Or is the cache available
> between those, too? (I would guess not)

APs should be able to read the BSP cache. I don't know that I have a 
working example of that. The sys_info struct should be an example.

Marc


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