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Comment by bombcar

20 hours ago

IIRC some relatively strange CPUs could run with unbacked cache.

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twbarr  20 hours ago

Intel's platform, at the very least, use cache-as-ram during the boot phase before the DDR interface can be trained and started up. https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/main/src/soc/intel...

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