[LinuxBIOS] pci base registers

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 18:26:47 CEST 2006


On 8/24/06, Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > does linuxbios use the acpi tables to figure out where to find the pci
> > base registers?
>
> No.  acpi tables are subject to copyright from the mfg and might be
> restricted on distribution.
>
> > and how are the dram config registers accessed in epia-m? is it
> > directly or via pci host bridge configuration registers?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.  Can you point me to
> the code that you are asking about?
>
> --
> Richard A. Smith
>

im really confused where dram configuration is being done in the
epia-m. is it in raminit.c? I thought we cannot use c code until dram
is set up.

i resorted to reading the acpi and amd bios manuals and got even more confused.

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1. it takes more than a second to boot up
2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself




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