[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Initial support for the ASUS A8NE-FM

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Wed Aug 15 15:00:05 CEST 2007


On my A8N5X, linuxbios gets quite far (it gets to vga initialisation, and then
breaks - will write about that later).

> Index: src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c	(Revision 2739)
> +++ src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c	(Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -620,7 +620,8 @@
>  #warning "FIXME: Implement a better test for Opterons"
>  	uint32_t nbcap;
>  	nbcap = pci_read_config32(ctrl->f3, NORTHBRIDGE_CAP);
> -	return !!(nbcap & NBCAP_128Bit);
> +	//// return !!(nbcap & NBCAP_128Bit);
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int is_registered(const struct mem_controller *ctrl)

I had to take this part of your patch to fix Opteron miss-detection.

Are you checking for the cpu itself?  If this is so, I think CPUID would
be much more reliable.  Would you like a patch for that?

-- 
Robert Millan

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