On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Rudolf Marek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But why it works for the rest of memory? The rest of memory is never cleared. >> Only to TOPK. Thats why I assumed its OK to change that and clear memory from >> _RAMBASE to TOPK and not from 0 to TOPK > > Dont' forget that the systems we boot also do things to memory that > can correctly set the ECC tags. > > I would have to see the sizes etc. and I can't look right now. But > don't forget that linux, as it allocates pages, zeros them. I don't > know all the places that memory is initialized in the kernel at this > point. but it could be we've been lucky. I don't know. > > Anyway, you need to make that code a little smarter and, on cold boot, > zero the low memory too.
Are we going to revert this bit for now, or do we have a way to fix it in the works? Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
