the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 45ded7df0317d2c898ed68e308f63d569e545658 Author: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Date: Thu Jun 4 00:10:03 2015 -0500
amd/amdmct/mct_ddr3: Improve SPD DIMM detect reliability
Upon bootup the hardware reads at minimum 256 * 16 bytes (4Kb, or 32KB) over I2C on a system with all DIMM slots populated. If even one of those reads has a single flipped bit in it (due to EMI, cross coupling with another trace, or just poor margins on some cheap DIMM) the system will hang and require a hard reset. In practice I've seen failure rates as high as 1 failed boot in 50 due to this issue, granted with cheap DIMMs, but even so retrying the read resolves the corruption issue.
I2C is not designed for continuous data transmission with high reliability, and there is no hardware error checking, therefore a single retry when transferring this amount of data makes sense.
Change-Id: Ifab63eca2233c63a6a42ab8b7e742f8e47fb2a09 Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11975 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/11975 for details.
-gerrit