Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for some more SuperIOs/old Chipsets

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi!

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:20:54AM +0200, popkonserve wrote:
> i didn't took a deep look into the api yet. so i still have a lot of 
> questions: where should i start?

Here:
http://linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines
> Chipsets and CPUs or rather some  SuperIO stuff?

Super I/O will give you immediate results (you see serial output), so
they're a good start.
> and what i really need to know is: where is the 
> configuration done? let's say ram timings (no spd on edo/fpm), superIO 
> settings, etc. (there are a lot other chipset tweaks that could be applied).

Depends. RAM init is done in src/northbridge/VENDOR/DEVICE/raminit.c,
Super I/O init is in src/superio/VENDOR/DEVICE/* etc.

HTH, Uwe.