Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Move QRANK_DIMM_SUPPORT to Kconfig

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:28:59PM -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote:
> I am no quad rank dimm expert, but I think few boards support them. One is Serengeti
> Cheetah. I remember asking why one processor socket has 4 dimm slots and another 8.
> I was told it was for quad rank dimm testing. The chip selects for two normal dimm sockets
> are combined and routed to a quad rank socket, if I remember correctly. I don't even
> have any quad ranked dimms to test with. I think they are rare.

Actually, they are not *that* rare, since they are readily available:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Ord...

Thanks,
Ward.