Hi Ed,
On 20.08.2008 18:17, Ed Swierk wrote:
The following set of patches implement support for the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor (codename "Tolapai"). This is a fairly powerful system-on-a-chip (SoC), integrating a CPU, northbridge, southbridge, SuperIO and (optionally) various security and signal processing accelerators in a single package. Power consumption ranges from 11 W for the 600 MHz non-accelerated version to 21 W for the 1.2 GHz accelerated version.
From a software perspective, the EP80579 is essentially a Pentium M CPU core glued to an Intel 3100 northbridge/southbridge/SuperIO, with a slightly fancier DDR2 memory controller. Thus my patches augment the existing Intel 3100 code in coreboot.
The code was written using information in the datasheet available on the Intel web site, and has been tested on an EP80579 Development Board (codename "Truxton"), booting a Linux 2.6.25.1 kernel payload.
Great work! I hope we can get a review done soon and merge it.
(I'd like to have this in v3 as well, but I think that's a task left for later.)
Regards, Carl-Daniel