[LinuxBIOS] v3 status?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 17:10:52 CET 2007


On 10/27/07, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I have no geode (except an NX kicking around somewhere), but I'm
> looking at the c7, cn700, and vt8237r. I've ported most of the
> northbridge and superio code, next comes the southbridge.

Let's start getting your patches in the tree in small doses, then. can
we start with the superio?

>A couple
> questions, if you don't mind too much:
>
> In the dts:
> pcipath = "x,y";
>
> x and y are device and function, correct? (only ask because it looks odd
> on some of them). How do we handle devices on another bus?

Remember this is hierarchical. So the intent is that this pcipath for
a device would be contained in the scope of a bus. It's not been
tested in real life yet.

>
> Where should/is serial init done? For a separate superio should it be in
> the initram main(), or is it handled by dts/Kconfig magic? Is calling
> uart/console init still necessary?

serial init is done in the stage 0 C code, as early as possible.

>
> What's needed for cache as ram (on via c3/7)? Should the generic
> stage0_i586.S do the trick (or be made to do the trick)? And will/should
> each cpu have its own folder like in v2, or is there some better and
> more generic plan?

The generic ought to do the trick for the C3/7. The cpu support is in
arch/x86/cpu-name, as in geodelx.

Read my document, and tell me what's missing, and I will update the
document. The intent is that the document should have ALL information
for a port.

ron




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