[coreboot] patch: working SMP startup for kontron/core2

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 19:38:30 CET 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Marc Jones <marcj303 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is in response to the very good comments i got.
>>>
>>> kontron is booting with this *with VGA*. Weirdly, serial and vga work
>>> but not keyboard (!).
>>>
>>> One issue is that the MTRRs are totally wrong, so that it runs slowly.
>>
>> Were you going to do MTRRs in phase6?
>
> I would like to do them early. I don't see any reason not to do them
> in initram. That way the memory would run fast. Comments on that idea
> are welcome.

Yes, You should set the BSP at initram time. I meant which stage of AP
init you would do it in.

Marc




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