On Friday 31 August 2007 18:49:55 Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote:
> > On Monday 27 August 2007 00:31:37 Quux wrote:
> > > Peter Stuge schrieb:
> > > > It may not be best practice to hotplug, but it is rather safe since
> > > > the chip is never accessed once the system is running.
> > >
> > > saves plug cycles and time ...
> > >
> > > >> Even an 8 Mbit piece 49LF080A works with the Asus a8ne, so
> > > >> maybe a kernel may be squeezed in there as well.
> > > >
> > > > Yup, but only with a minimum of drivers.
> > >
> > > a 2 MByte piece was used to contain LB + Kernel. I guess a 2 MByte
> > > flash would work in A8N-E , too.
> > >
> > >
> > > currently I am trying to manage with the variables ROMSIZE , IMAGE SIZE
> > > asf. to build a ROM with correct size 512 KB, which seems tricky for
> > > some obscure reason. --Q
> >
> > Today I checked out the latest svn revision and tested on our ASUS A8N-E
> > rev 2.0.
> >
> > Status of the board is unchanged. It boots with filo 5.0 from IDE. The
> > autmatically build images are not working. Reason is the RAM issue with
> > Athlon64 CPU in 939 socket.
> >
> > You need to modify amdk8/raminit.c
> >
> > Index: src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c (Revision 2754)
> > +++ src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c (Arbeitskopie)
> > @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@
> > if (unbuffered && registered) {
> > die("Mixed buffered and registered dimms not supported");
> > }
> > -#if 1
> > +#if 0
> > // yhlu debug: Athlon64 939 can do dual channel, but it uses
> > unbuffered DIMMs
> > if (unbuffered && is_opteron(ctrl)) {
> > die("Unbuffered Dimms not supported on Opteron");
> >
> > I also need to mention that you have to put the RAM module in a specific
> > bank. I used bank 3 (blue).
>
> Did you try memtest86+ ? Asides from the die() you commented out, there
> were spurious memory access problems. Yes I successfully "memtest"ed before commiting a8n-e target. But maybe this was a lucky run. I started memtest from the grub-menu of filo-0.5 payload. Running memtest directly as linuxbios payload in earlier tests returned errors during the random-pattern-test. > In my similar board (A8N5X) those > problems disappeared with a patch provided by Rudolf. I would be happy to test that patch on the A8N-E. > See also: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10078.html > > I don't remember if the patch was made public. You'd better ask him about > it :-)
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