[LinuxBIOS] Steps for successsful ram init on i440bx boards

[Corey Osgood]

roger wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:09 -0400, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> 
>> Roger this would be very helpful. I have been working on other Intel  
>> chipsets (cousins of the i440bx) and something to go by would be great!!
>>
>> Thanks - Joe
> 
> ok.. i'll start taking notes tonight.
> 

Great idea! With all of us chipping in, I'm sure we can get this going.
Also you might find the LinuxBIOSv1 implementation of the 440bx helpful,
that setup actually works! Only real major problem is, it's written in
asm, so it's a bit hard to understand/follow. There's also a bunch of
stuff in the bitworks ims's auto.c that might be important. I tried a
simple port to C at one point, but that didn't work out. I'm going to
work right now on getting smbus working correctly, and the drb/timing
registers set by it..first have to get the board set up again though ;)

BTW, anyone have experience with using a Willem EEPROM programmer under
linux? I haven't been able to get the darn thing to work through wine,
nor will it work on Vista. I'm starting to wonder if it's just a bum unit.

-Corey