[coreboot] ASUS A8V-E Deluxe RAM initialization issues AND dual-core success story

[Rudolf Marek]

> Board label: A1 | A2 | B1 | B2  <-- physical layout
>               -----------------
> i2c address: 51 | 53 | 50 | 52
>

OK then we need to modify it on WIKI page and also produce a patch to fix it..

> I also tried to swap DIMM0, DIMM2 with DIMM1, DIMM3 and the results from
> i2cdetect were funny:

looks like hanged I2C bus.

> I'm not sure right now if it did.. the table is probably correct but now
> even non-ECC is not fully detected. Assuming it IS correct, is there
> anything I can try except making myself familiar with RAM init and
> searching for a bug, which could take a while, like, forever?

No, if you get this far, don't underestimate yourself. I remember back in those 
days memory init looked looked like a huge magic, but nowadays with DDR2/DDR3 it 
is MAGIC. Last 5 years added a lot of complexity to the raminit, which allows me 
to say that K8 DDR is sufficiently simple. Not easy but doable.

I think you need to see message from spd_enable_2channels()

printk(BIOS_SPEW, "Enabling dual channel memory\n");

(you need to set debug level to SPEW)

If you dont see thise message the function above failed for some reason and only 
one channel is used. Try to look into this function first.

> Thank you for your help Rudolf!

No problem, I'm glad that my work is still used.

Thanks
Rudolf