[libre-riscv-dev] System-Wide Complexity Rant (was store computation unit)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 8:09 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 00:03 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> wrote:
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> > Intel is absolutely no different here, they too are restricted to around 16
> > to 32k SRAM until the DRAM is brought up in the absolute minimal way, again
> > you just simply do not witness the process unless you are a coreboot
> > developer.
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> I recall x86 being able to enable cache-as-ram mode to allow using much
> more than 16-32k of memory before initializing the dram controllers.

nice.  the joys of having billion-dollar budgets, eh? :)