12 Oct
2007
12 Oct
'07
9:55 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:34:11AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:31:23PM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote:
I know that the dram controller must be up, but what else?
PCI
Northbrige (RAM and other stuff) and southbridge. You may get away with initializing almost nothing in the SB, depending on where you boot from (IDE, SATA, network), but usually you really want to init all available devices.
I doubt Linux can do all of the init.
..Super IO..
Dunno.
Not critical, but if it's not initialized correctly you'll lose keyboard, mouse, floppy, parallel ports etc. The system will still boot usually, but many parts won't work.
Uwe.