[coreboot] Questions about more AMD related flags

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Wed Nov 17 23:32:23 CET 2010


Am 06.11.2010 05:32, schrieb Scott Duplichan:
> I am familiar with the recent history of this bit. It defaults to
> zero, resulting in the 'weird' local apic id numbering. BIOS is 
> supposed to set it early to get the normal apic id numbering. 
> While I do not know the origin of this strange bit, I do know
> it was scheduled for removal in future AMD processors. Unfortunately
> the removal plan was rejected. I would certainly get rid of
> SET_NB_CFG_54. Just let coreboot set this bit early so that there
> is no need to deal with two different local apic id formats.
This patch does away with SET_NB_CFG_54, keeping the code that was
selected by this option for all K8+ multicore CPUs.


Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>
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