[coreboot] FrontRunner and OLPC memory type?

[Richard A. Smith]

On 09/28/2010 02:04 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Peter Stuge<peter at stuge.se>  wrote:
>
>> The point would be to show how coreboot can support a single board
>> which has been populated with different soldered-on RAM chips.
>
> OK, good point; let's do that with a board people can buy, not a
> one-off engineering sample with DRAM parts known to be buggy.
>
>>
>> I think this would be useful to have, but on the other hand it may
>> not be so difficult to add for the next board which needs it, and it
>> might rot a little if only in a board noone really uses with coreboot
>> anymore.
>
> it's rotted completely. Plus, it was making trouble for the guys doing
> GX2 work. Hence I am glad it's going away.

If you want to do a board with soldered on ram then use the XO-1.5 board 
rather than the XO-1 board. Its vx855 based so it won't mess up any GX2 
people.  XO-1.5 boards are in production and in the wild.  If someone 
wants one then you can fill out an app on the contributors program and 
we send you one.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program

cc: me if you apply.

The cots people do this by making a fake SPD device and plugging in the 
necessary data.  That way you don't have to restructure the code too much.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child