Arthur Heymans (arthur@aheymans.xyz) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at https://review.coreboot.org/17981
-gerrit
commit 9271d3b1aff5378240181a471e4472aaa6570c10 Author: Arthur Heymans arthur@aheymans.xyz Date: Wed Dec 28 21:20:45 2016 +0100
nb/intel/945gc: Hardcode the integrated graphic frequencies
The code to set the igd frequencies is written with the mobile version of the 945 chipset in mind and seems to cause cause strange igd related problems on the desktop versions.
Some psosible problems are: * on 800MHz fsb CPUs the igd sometimes has artefacts on the screen; * on 800MHz fsb CPU memtest results vary a lot; * since a commit 45e11aa0a5 "Add/Combine Broadwell Chromebooks using variant board scheme" that does not affect this northbridge, the display shows garbage as soon as Linux (4.8) modesets the display.
A fix is to hardcode the core display and render clocks to their maximum, potentially also improving graphical performance. Vendor bios on all boards in coreboot with this northbridge have the same value in this PCI config address.
TESTED on P5GC-MX (display works fine again in Linux) and user reports of it making GA-945GCM-S2L run more stable.
Change-Id: I8b046edbc952631d9b79023e3d385160ff682c24 Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans arthur@aheymans.xyz --- src/northbridge/intel/i945/raminit.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/northbridge/intel/i945/raminit.c b/src/northbridge/intel/i945/raminit.c index a4a1eaf..1de29fc 100644 --- a/src/northbridge/intel/i945/raminit.c +++ b/src/northbridge/intel/i945/raminit.c @@ -3116,8 +3116,14 @@ void sdram_initialize(int boot_path, const u8 *spd_addresses) /* Program PLL settings */ sdram_program_pll_settings(&sysinfo);
- /* Program Graphics Frequency */ - sdram_program_graphics_frequency(&sysinfo); + /* + * Program Graphics Frequency + * Set core display and rendor clock on 945GC to the max + */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SUBTYPE_I945GM)) + sdram_program_graphics_frequency(&sysinfo); + else + pci_write_config16(PCI_DEV(0, 2, 0), GCFC, 0x0534);
/* Program System Memory Frequency */ sdram_program_memory_frequency(&sysinfo);