Bit banging SPD code
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Jan 22 18:36:01 CET 2004
"Peter Fox" <peter.fox at aeroflex.com> writes:
> I would like to make the STPC elite ram initialisation use SPD info.
>
> I notice that all the existing SDRAM initialisation that uses
> SPD seems to use some kind of SPD controller. Is this true ?
Yes.
> The STPC elite only provides a bit banging SPD interface, has
> anyone implemented smbus_read_byte etc with a bit banging interface ?
Not for LinuxBIOS so it looks like you have some work ahead of you.
On the plus side a bit banging interface since you get more control
provides the opportunity for more robust error handling.
Eric
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