[LinuxBIOS] Proposed change to amdk8 memory controller code

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Oct 20 21:05:57 CEST 2005


San Mehat wrote:
> 1- I dont think we should be worried about names that are too long. I'd 
> much rather have a long name than a non-descriptive one (or in this case 
> a totally misleading one)
> 2- Changing the attribute shouldn't be that big of a deal.
> 3 - dimm_mask isn't exposed to the mainboard layer which is where we 
> need it.
> 
> 
> As for 'why we need it', we have a post card which displays the DIMM 
> population map on boot for our ops guys...

1. I'm ok with long names. These are rarely typed, more often read, and 
should be correct.
2. yeah
3. yeah, expose as much info as we can. We're a bios.

can you send us a diff  in -u format so we can take a look?

ron




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