[coreboot] [patch] fix intel 82810 onboard VGA and SDRAM functions

Elia Yehuda z4ziggy at gmail.com
Mon May 11 15:28:16 CEST 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Elia Yehuda <z4ziggy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch enables the onboard VGA found on 82810 boards and fixes the
> > memory procedures to support different kinds of DIMMs. also, support for
> > 82810e board had been added. The only drawback from this patch is the
> > HAVE_HIGH_TABLES being disabled since it disables (for unknown reason)
> > the onboard VGA.
> It looks like the problem is that the memory you're reserving for VGA
> and the memory reserved for high tables ends up in the same place
> (ending at tomk.)  If you decide which one should go at the end and
> modify the math, it should work.


i completely agree - there seems to be an overlapped memory region, but i
couldn't
trace it deep enough to be able to fix it. sorry... im not familiar enough
with coreboot
code. i suspect you guys will have better luck.


>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Elia Yehuda <z4ziggy at gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
>
> Since it looks like an easy fix, let's get it right before committing
> it.  It breaks SeaBIOS, and our assumption that HAVE_HIGH_TABLES
> doesn't break anything.
>

i'll keep an eye on HAVE_HIGH_TABLES patches and migrate them to my patches
and check if it fix the issue. i'll update the ml as for the results.


>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>

Elia.
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