2017-02-13 8:19 GMT+01:00 Andrey Petrov <andrey.pet...@intel.com>: > tl;dr: > We are considering adding early parallel code execution in coreboot. We need > to discuss how this can be done. It's reasonable to discuss the "if" first.
> Nowadays we see firmware getting more complicated. The coreboot mantra isn't just "boot fast", but also "boot simple". On your "scheduler or MPinit" question, _if_ we have to go down that route: I'd prefer a cooperative threaded single core scheduler, for one simple reason: it's easier to reason about the correctness of code that only ever ceases control at well-defined yield points. As you said, those tasks are not CPU bound. We also don't need experimental ucode for that even when running threads in CAR ;-) Patrick -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
