On 2 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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> Ron I thought of a passable work around to the no ram problem, during
> memory init. Turn on L1 cache and initialize it. Then you run in cache
> while you are initializing memory. It's not fool proof and I still need
> to see if I can do it, but it looks to me like this will allow memory
> init to be done in C code.
the trick will be making the l1 init withouut having the chipset touch
memory .Any writes to memory can cause either SDRAM death or a cihpset
lockup (as in l440gx)
ron