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Uwe Hermann 0865b4d9c0 Make ASUS P3B-F RAM init actually work by enabling SPD access.
On this board all reads from SPD return 0xff by default, there's a custom
GPIO fiddling needed to enable access to the SPD SMBus offsets at
0x50-0x53. While coreboot actually sort of booted sometimes before r5193,
that was just sheer luck as the RAM init was hardcoded in certain ways.
Since the proper, more heavily SPD-based RAM init the brokenness of the
ASUS P3B-F RAM init was becoming visible.

This patch uses GPIOs to enable access to the SPD SMBus offsets,
and resets the GPIOs again after RAM init (this is needed to allow for
lm-sensors to work, for example).

Tested successfully on hardware.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@5819 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
2010-09-19 21:12:05 +00:00
documentation drop three unneeded config variables: 2010-08-27 09:36:41 +00:00
payloads Add default libpayload build, xcompile, and lpgcc setup to tint. 2010-09-16 21:36:44 +00:00
src Make ASUS P3B-F RAM init actually work by enabling SPD access. 2010-09-19 21:12:05 +00:00
util Add support for dumping ACPI registers for i7 2010-09-03 09:36:37 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile Add convenience rules for cscope to Makefile. 2010-09-03 08:57:32 +00:00
README Replace sconfig with a C implementation. 2010-04-08 11:37:43 +00:00

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coreboot README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel or a bootloader.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * gcc / g++
 * make

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
-------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.