"Ing. Daniel Rozsnyó" wrote: > There is a plenty of choice in CPUs (intel, amd, lot of ARM implementation, > and others) and they are not the bottleneck. With near all CPU you get ISA > documentation so you can run your code on it. What else do you want from a > CPU than to serve you?
Modern Intel CPUs can not be started without signed Intel blobs. AMD is better for now. >> believe it or not, even Intel uses 3rd party cores : an ARC (and not ARM) >> core is used and tuned to sit idle in the northbridge (and open invisible >> ports in your network but i'll leave the security aspect aside). > > That is the issue of northbridge, not the CPU itself. Also all the > linux-bios issues were related rather to memory controller > initialization, than to the cpu itself. You're correct that it is a lot of effort for us in coreboot to initialize memory controllers, but before we can get that far we first have to get the CPU to run, which isn't neccessarily trivial. It no longer executes instructions just because there is a power supply. Please view Ron's presentation slides for an excellent overview of how things stand with contemporary high-end x86 CPUs: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-_cgb4gRhZxl9anxudIgO_NAB80yq-ks4HtOx-zlDz8/present //Peter _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
