[coreboot] ram init help on the i82830

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 00:04:14 -0400, "Corey Osgood" <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Actually, lets get some more debugging info, in case that doesn't work.
One
> quick question though:
> 
> 60: 08 10 12 12 12 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> Are 0x64 and 0x65 also DRBs? Or they just happen to also be 0x12? 

Ah, good catch. The datasheet says there is only 4 registers, and the
i82830 only supports 2 dimms, but every northbridge dump (original bios's)
I have done those two extra un-documented DRB registers are calculated. I
think these were a design glitch, anyhow way back I discovered the system
would not boot unless these were set. So in raminit I have this:

			/* We need to set the highest DRB value to 0x64 and 0x65.
			 * These are supposed to be "Reserved" but memory will
			 * not initialize properly if we don't.
			 */
			value = pci_read_config8(ctrl->d0, DRB + 3);
			pci_write_config8(ctrl->d0, DRB + 4, value);
			pci_write_config8(ctrl->d0, DRB + 5, value);



> Either way, this should work, but it will only work for up to 2 sticks.
I've gotten rid of the dual sided junk, I'm about 98% sure 
> it's not necessary, so it now just reads the start of the dimm (instead
of row) and reads from that. Please try a memtest payload, if this > boots,
just to make sure it's working right.
> 

I will try it out, and report back. Thanks for your help :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org