[LinuxBIOS] Adding IGEL-316 mainboard

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:29:59PM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2007 14:21, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > * Juergen Beisert <juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de> [070511 23:11]:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > attached the patch to add basic support for the mainboard in a so called
> > > IGEL-316 graphical terminal. I'm not sure who the original manufacturer
> > > of this mainboard is. It is labeled with "WINNET100 VER: 1.1
> > > (30-3130000-110)"
> >
> > Please dont put raminit into the mainboard specific code. It belongs to
> > the northbridge code instead. Please implement this generic.
> 
> But how? Without access to the SPD EEPROM content, I need some way to define 
> board specific what kind of SDRAM is in use. And we need a way to consider 
> some board/layout specific things (delay values, load and so on). To setup 
> the SDRAM controller in a correct way we need all this info. And this info is 
> not generic!

I think we can use the 'fake SPD' technique here, or am I wrong? See
fakespd.c here for an examples (the code was removed, but is still in
svn history):

http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/browser/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/amd/quartet/fakespd.c?rev=2545


Uwe.
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