[LinuxBIOS] Support for some more SuperIOs/old Chipsets

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Thu May 3 12:27:41 CEST 2007


Hi!

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:20:54AM +0200, popkonserve wrote:
> i didn't took a deep look into the api yet. so i still have a lot of 
> questions: where should i start?

Here:
http://linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines


> Chipsets and CPUs or rather some  SuperIO stuff?

Super I/O will give you immediate results (you see serial output), so
they're a good start.


> and what i really need to know is: where is the 
> configuration done? let's say ram timings (no spd on edo/fpm), superIO 
> settings, etc. (there are a lot other chipset tweaks that could be applied).

Depends. RAM init is done in src/northbridge/VENDOR/DEVICE/raminit.c,
Super I/O init is in src/superio/VENDOR/DEVICE/* etc.


HTH, Uwe.
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