[coreboot] [RFC] use of SMM with SSE/MMX...

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Sun Jul 3 23:11:46 CEST 2011


On 7/2/11 2:08 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes even 486 would be good fit! (It has more closer aligns etc). As 
> Stefan mentioned, some CPU might not have SSE enabled failing to 
> execute coreboot. Maybe this is a bit broader problem.
>
> Thanks
> Rudolf
>
Note that this problem does not happen with the reference toolchain that 
is i386-elf.

I agree, we should add CFLAGS to not compile coreboot or at least the 
SMM handler with MMX/SSE/... instructions.
There is no big gain in doing so anyways.

Stefan




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