[coreboot] PCI domains

[yhlu]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > one HP's AMD based workstation (like tyan s2895) has that ... one ht
> chain
> > ==> one pci domain.
> > you could enable that in BIOS setup. (HP's own BIOS)
>
>
> Is there any benefit to it?


more than 255 pci buses. think about if you have 32 ht chains...

amd Family 10h cpu could support 16 domains ( 4 bits for domain...)

YH
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