On 02/11/2018 03:32 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 10.02.2018 19:57, Arthur Heymans wrote:
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:
I would like to add this information to the wiki so I am wondering if
anyone has successfully used for instance dual 8GB graphics cards with
coreboot.
I don't think that this gpu memory is mapped into the linear memory
space. Such a GPU will typically have a PCI memory resource BAR that is
(only) 256M large (could be 512M or more these days).
I am not sure if this would be an issue due to coreboot only having
32bit MMIO space.
It depends a bit on how things are configured but with a fairly common
2G mmio space below 4G I think it is unlikely for 2 external GPU's to be
an issue.
It would of course be nice to have 64bit BAR support but that would
require substantial changes in the allocator and more importantly a lot
of time spend in a sane and thoughtful design...
I think Myles Watson (not 100% sure) worked on an improved resource
allocator with 64 bit resource support for v3. I do not know if it ever
was merged in v4, or if that was instead a port of the v2 allocator to
v3, in which case this would be mostly what we have now. The mails about
this are mostly from 2009.
Thanks for the info everyone :]
That is a damn shame it didn't get merged, it would be quite useful to
make coreboot a better server platform - it is needed for many nics,
sr-iov, etc.
Do you have his email?
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