780/700 Documentation

[Bao, Zheng]

Hi, All,
We have been working on the RS780/SB700 for about 2 weeks. Before we can
submit our code, we realized that it doesn't make sense if the
documentation is not available. We can get the datasheet as an AMD
engineer. How can the developer in Coreboot.org get? Do we need any
official procedure to make the document public?

Joe

[Rudolf Marek]

Hi,
> We have been working on the RS780/SB700 for about 2 weeks. Before we can
> submit our code, we realized that it doesn't make sense if the
> documentation is not available.

Well it does. Sometimes code is better than nothing ;)
> We can get the datasheet as an AMD
> engineer. How can the developer in Coreboot.org get? Do we need any
> official procedure to make the document public?

Yes I think so. Maybe ask Marc how it was.

We get manuals from:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739_15137,0...

Rudolf

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:43:23PM +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> > We have been working on the RS780/SB700 for about 2 weeks. Before we can
> > submit our code, we realized that it doesn't make sense if the
> > documentation is not available.
>
> Well it does. Sometimes code is better than nothing ;)

Fully agreed. It's now pretty much impossible to buy 690-based desktop
boards, so we really need the 780/700 code as soon as possible if we want to
support at least some desktops...
> > We can get the datasheet as an AMD
> > engineer. How can the developer in Coreboot.org get? Do we need any
> > official procedure to make the document public?

I hope that can get sorted out soon - having the docs publicly available is
really important as it facilitates coreboot development greatly.

Thanks,
Ward.