[LinuxBIOS] hotplugging flash piece on A8N-E / ROMSIZE

[Philipp Degler]

On Monday 27 August 2007 00:31:37 Quux wrote:
> Peter Stuge schrieb:
> > It may not be best practice to hotplug, but it is rather safe since
> > the chip is never accessed once the system is running.
>
>  saves plug cycles and time ...
>
> >> Even an 8 Mbit piece 49LF080A works with the Asus a8ne, so
> >> maybe a kernel may be squeezed in there as well.
> >
> > Yup, but only with a minimum of drivers.
>
> a 2 MByte piece was used to contain LB + Kernel. I guess a 2 MByte flash
> would work in A8N-E , too.
>
>
> currently I am trying to manage with the variables ROMSIZE , IMAGE SIZE
> asf. to build a ROM with correct size 512 KB, which seems tricky for
> some obscure reason.  --Q
Today I checked out the latest svn revision and tested on our ASUS A8N-E rev 
2.0.

Status of the board is unchanged. It boots with filo 5.0 from IDE. The 
autmatically build images are not working. Reason is the RAM issue with 
Athlon64 CPU in 939 socket.

You need to modify amdk8/raminit.c

Index: src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c
===================================================================
--- src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c (Revision 2754)
+++ src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@
        if (unbuffered && registered) {
                die("Mixed buffered and registered dimms not supported");
        }
-#if 1
+#if 0
        // yhlu debug: Athlon64 939 can do dual channel, but it uses 
unbuffered DIMMs
        if (unbuffered && is_opteron(ctrl)) {
                die("Unbuffered Dimms not supported on Opteron");

I also need to mention that you have to put the RAM module in a specific bank. 
I used bank 3 (blue).

hope that helps.

--
phil
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