[coreboot] Dump GPIO I/O Registers

joe at smittys.pointclark.net joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Tue Feb 19 16:55:07 CET 2008


Quoting Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>:

> * joe at smittys.pointclark.net <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> [080219 15:40]:
>> I wish you would have brought this up earlier....
>
> Sorry. I had it on my CF disk for a while :(
>
>> As Ron said "btw, this type of tool is incredibly useful, as you doubtless
>> know". I think we should mofify it for all the ICH's and add it to the
>> utils or at least a wiki page maybe?
>
> I think that's a good plan. It should print at least the name of the
> probed registers though to be a real "dump tool". It was merely a quick
> attempt to find out how to set up the GPIOs so that serial console would
> finally work and no other bad surprises jump in until we can verify with
> the board schematics.
>
> I have another one of those for the "MCHBAR" of the i945. Maybe we
> should make this "intel-debugtools" or something?
>
> Stefan
>
Sounds like a great plan:-)
I have 4 or 5 intel boards lined up for coreboot development so  
"intel-debugtools" works.

Thanks - Joe




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