smp, newconfig, hdama

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon Aug 11 11:49:01 CEST 2003


ron minnich wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Bari Ari wrote:
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>>ron minnich wrote:
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>>>The two unknowable issues with IBM:
>>>- enable SPD
>>>- enable FLASH write
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>>>they refuse to tell us.
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>>Was that with the T23? The T23 has a 830MP chipset and S3 graphics. What 
>>did they use for the keyboard controller/super I/O?
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>that is with all IBMs.
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The few IBM's I've looked at mux all the SMBus and I2C lines that are 
used for SPD, smart battery, keyboard controller and DDC for CRT, etc, 
etc. The Flash ROM's and FWH write enables tend to be controlled through 
GPIO's on the Super I/O or keyboard/system management controller.

Bari





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