[coreboot] locking...

[Myles Watson]

> >>> So each AP has some part of RAM to copy the buffer to?
> >>>
> >> the way SMP works, the BSP sets up its ram. At that point, the APs can
> >> use the BSP ram.
> >>
> > For Opterons where each node has its own RAM this is a little bit more
> > complex, right?
> >
> No, not really. This is already the complex case. Many systems only have
> one memory controller. But on all coreboot systems, even those with
> multiple memory controllers, the controllers are all set up by the BSP.
> Parallelizing here makes only very little sense.
> 
> The reason we're parallelizing is you have to clear memory if you have
> ECC on some (older?) systems where the memory controller is incapable of
> doing that automatically. So when we have to clear 32G at a rate of 3 or
> 6GB/s we want to put that load on several CPUs, so it's 1-2s instead of
> 5-10. But the ram is all there at this point, and can be transparently
> accessed by all CPUs.

I think what we really need is a tool called email2docs.  :)

Thanks for the answers.

Thanks,
Myles