Spewin. I gave it a good day ... got the whole BIOS burning procedure up, but of course, to test my payload I need to actually initialise a few things (ahem).
Needless to say, that after starting my own board and north/south bridges, I am beginning to get a better idea of how you guys make this work ... its a bit odd tho ... its not really compiling software ... its more like tying your shoe-laces ... ;) Anyway, I set about getting ram running using hacked around code (cleaned up mostly) from the ALi code used in the CUA ipl.S ... which went pretty smoothly until I got bogged down for 6hours ... only recently concluding that the reason why my RAM won't init is because I have SDRAM not DRAM (*argh!*) ... which brings me to the sweet looking chunk of code in the 630 ipl.S .... .. I still don't grasp these relationships well ... but the SPD info ... is it always going to be at the same address on the SMBus or is that vendor/implementation dependant .. ? My heard hurts and my ego's bruised ... I think I'm going to do some TaeBo and try to work off some of this RAM code :-(
