[LinuxBIOS] SPD as debug channel

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Dec 1 23:11:40 CET 2006


> The place I order production boards from (local fab) do have 1.2mm
> laminate but the minimum order they do is one full panel (about .5m2)
> - that means a big bag of boards. :)

Real cheap-skates just demolish an existing (already broken) DIMM ;-)

> If there's interest I'll be happy to make a DDR2 board that does high
> speed SPD<->USB.

Why USB?  RS232 is soooo much simpler, can connect to anything without
special software / drivers needed.

> This is pretty special-purpose though. Perhaps time would be better
> spent on the LPC thingy, since they can be used for testing too.

Many systems don't have LPC and it's getting worse.  An LPC thing
would be useful, of course.


Segher





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