[coreboot] [PATCH] Convert all Intel i810 boards to CAR

[Warren Turkal]

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 19:22:43 Joseph Smith wrote:
> FC-PGA's support SSE2 while the PGA's do not. that is the difference. I
> created FC_PGA370 to make the CAR coversion simpler. Hope that helps.

I must be misunderstanding this entirely.

First, you say there is a difference in that the FC version support SSE2. Then, 
you say that the FC_PGA370 socket is simply a mechanism to make conversion to 
CAR easier.

Does that mean that FC_PGA370 is simply PGA370 + CAR, or do PGA370 sockets 
really not support SSE2 chips?

Researching it a little bit, I see that FC-PGA370 is a mechanically compatible 
socket, so I guess that the FC-PGA370 supports chips that the PGA370 does not. 
Is that correct? So FC-PGA is more than just an upgrade CAR?

So I guess I would be satisfied if I knew that the minimum size l2 cache for a 
chip that fits in the PGA370 was 4K since that's what the patch says and since 
that's really what matters for the DCACHE_RAM_SIZE.

Also, are we sure that the DCACHE_RAM_BASE used will work? I.e. has it been 
tested on real hardware?

Also, if we have real hardware running that works with this. Would if be 
possible to get a the register output for a cpuid 0x80000006 call? I'd just 
like to know if it would work on that processor since that call can be used to 
dynamically determine the amount of l2 cache. I've been thinking about adding 
that to the intel/amd/via CAR implementations so that DCACHE_RAM_SIZE doesn't 
need to be set.

Thanks,
wt