[coreboot] LinuxBIOS on VIA EPIA EN15000

[Corey Osgood]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:29:17AM +0100, bernhard.maenner at mail.cablevision.at wrote:
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>> I own a VIA EPIA EN15000 Motherboard
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>> Is there a chance to get my board working ?
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> Some, if you have time to hack a bit.
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>> Can anybody tell me what to do ?
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> Corey Osgood has posted a C7/CN700 patch to the list. It has been
> tested by at least one other person but I believe it still has some
> caveats. Dig it out and try to make a coreboot port for your board.
> Please feel free to ask questions on this list or on irc.freenode.net
> #coreboot and we'll try to help.
>   

That patch has some faults, don't try to use it with anything more than 
one single sided dimm, it just won't work. It also needs the MA map type 
set manually, look for this bit in raminit.c:

/* Set to 2T, MA Map type 1.
 * TODO: Needs to become dynamic */
pci_write_config16(ctrl->d0f3, 0x50, 0x0020);

The correct values for your dimm can be found with 'lspci -xxx -s 0:0.3' 
or 'setpci -s 0:0:0.3 0x50 0x51' on the stock bios.

I'm back to working on wrapping this up now (as opposed to messing 
around with CAR), as of right now I've got multiple dimm size setup and 
dynamic timings coded for (not tested yet, but it looks good at least), 
next step is the MRS values and ram init for all dimms, then MA map 
values, and Rudolf gave me some pointers that might get the memory speed 
working properly. I will need a sucker, I mean, volunteer who has a 
board like the gOS desktop board with multiple dimms to give this a shot 
eventually, I still don't have one, and this winter's been a lot harder 
on my wallet then I expected.

-Corey

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> //Peter