Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-06-15 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
What's the status of the code below? Carl-Daniel On 30.05.2007 04:36, Alfred Wanga wrote: > Apologies everyone... I meant to tweak it after the feedback, but never > could seem to get around to it. Here is the original patch again. > > Signed-off-by: Alfred Wanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Uwe

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-06-01 Thread Alfred Wanga
Apologies everyone... I meant to tweak it after the feedback, but never could seem to get around to it. Here is the original patch again. Signed-off-by: Alfred Wanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uwe Hermann wrote: Hi, thanks for your patch. However, please sign-off all patches you submit, otherwise w

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread roger
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 01:12 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:19:46PM -0700, roger wrote: > > Or have we verified writing to memory is successful? > Well, yes, at least I think so :) <-- lol. > However, we only know for sure when we > booted a payload successfully (which will

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:19:46PM -0700, roger wrote: > Uwe, from what I've read concerning the i440BX memory initialization > docs, SPD is *required* to initialize memory. Yes, you get the information about timings etc. of the RAM via SPD, see Peters mail. > Or have we verified writing to memo

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread roger
Interesting... seems this patch is creating a cpu run when compiling. Within ASM code maybe? Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon Apr 30 15:18:19 PDT 2007 -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http:/

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, thanks for your patch. However, please sign-off all patches you submit, otherwise we cannot commit them. http://linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure Please re-send this patch with a sign-off. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:47:42AM -0400, Alfred Wanga wrote: > * PMCR - When s

Re: [LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:19:46PM -0700, roger wrote: > (or is memory init and activating SPD two seperate things here?) SPD is short for Serial Presence Detect, it's the protocol/method used to probe what type of RAM module is installed in a RAM slot. SPD works by reading parameters from an EEP

[LinuxBIOS] i440bx RAM initialization code (SPD)

2007-04-30 Thread Alfred Wanga
Ok, so I've been working on porting the SPD code, and this patch is what I've got so far. Here are some of the outstanding issues/changes: * SPD register code (tested using PCI/SMBus Dumps) I ported the v1 assembly and made some modifications when the numbers didn't really add up on my machine (p