[LinuxBIOS] Generic framework for early PCI and RAM init?

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Dec 3 19:48:02 CET 2006


* Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> [061203 19:28]:
> Perhaps we could do better with RAM init though.
> 
> Would a RAM init API make sense?
> 
> How different is SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 init on one controller compared
> to another? Do the controllers usually work in similar ways so that
> the higher level sequence of things to do is the same on them all?
 
Many things are different, but I think we could seriously gain from
anything we can APIfy. DRAM init is our biggest time waster nowadays.

> If so, it would be nice to encode these init sequences into
> lib/{sdram,ddr,ddr2} and make an API that the northbridge code has to
> implement.
 
Yes!! 


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