[coreboot] [RFC] SMM handling and resident coreboot

[Stefan Reinauer]

yhlu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Since we know how big our RAM is when we copy coreboot to RAM, I suggest
>> that we copy coreboot to the end of memory and run it from there. It is
>> a pretty good assumption that no payload will require that space. During
>> memory map creation, we just reserve 256k at the upper end, and we're good.
>>     
>
> you mean somewhere below 4g? or below TOM.
>   

End of RAM. On some chipsets, there also seems to be a mechanism to 
reserve memory space fore SMM handlers (TSEG)
> also for ecc ram, only ram below CONFIG_LB_MEM_TOPK get inited
>   
Does this mean all memory has to be initialized? Or is it enough to 
initialize only the part we're using?

I thought to remember ECC memory is scrubbed locally by each CPU on 
startup? Is this not the case?


Stefan

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