Re: [LinuxBIOS] Generic framework for early PCI and RAM init?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Peter Stuge  [061203 19:28]:
> Perhaps we could do better with RAM init though.
>
> Would a RAM init API make sense?
>
> How different is SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 init on one controller compared
> to another? Do the controllers usually work in similar ways so that
> the higher level sequence of things to do is the same on them all?

Many things are different, but I think we could seriously gain from
anything we can APIfy. DRAM init is our biggest time waster nowadays.
> If so, it would be nice to encode these init sequences into
> lib/{sdram,ddr,ddr2} and make an API that the northbridge code has to
> implement.

Yes!!