[LinuxBIOS] Messing with CAR in a big way

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sat Jan 12 01:35:42 CET 2008


On 12.01.2008 01:25, ron minnich wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 4:13 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ron, where would you like to have the CAR area to avoid copying the
>> stack around in v2? Any places where stack location is hardcoded without
>> using the usual #define?
>>
>>     
>
> If you could put it at x800000 that would work very well with what I'm
> doing on LX.
>   

One zero too many? Your location would be 8 MB. That is impossible
according to the BKDG.

> Be advised that car on older opterons is a bit tricky, due to
> limitations in the hardware. I can't test on older k8 any more, all I
> have is an AM2.
>   

I think SimNow may be good enough for first tests of older hardware.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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