Hi all, On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul, you missed part of the picture. Suppose we have a different > kernel, which does not have the same bug as Linux has,and that, > further, depends on that register being visible? We can't know that > such OSes exist, but we do not know that they do not. We'd have to at > the very least test some of them. We've always tried to avoid being > Linux-centric in coreboot and for the most part have succeeded. > Further, hidden registers create their own problems. > > This problem has no clear solution. I've always felt that in all > cases, we should err on the side of opening up the hardware, and not > hiding registers. > > ron > I checked with Paul briefly on IRC, I think we may be missing something obvious here. IOAPIC support is pretty fundamental; maybe the ck804 brokenness is fixable? (I'm willing to dig in a little deeper and find out what's going on here.) If so then there would be no need to make a special case for it in coreboot, right? David
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