the following patch was just integrated into master: commit b26658aa0e3116ff29ef6d801ea2da9065e953c3 Author: Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner@gmail.com Date: Fri Sep 14 16:29:10 2012 +0200
Set SMBIOS mainboard version based on i2c eeprom
In the field there are different hardware revisions and some of them have problems with UDMA as a resistor is missing. We can detect this situation in coreboot and e.g. the linux kernel can take this knowledge and disable UDMA.
Change-Id: Ib75cad7acedbc1dc65378bb9bfc3f353cbe21427 Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner@gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de at Mon Sep 17 09:03:53 2012, giving +2 Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Fri Sep 14 16:47:43 2012, giving +1 See http://review.coreboot.org/1512 for details.
-gerrit