[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: AMD DB800 support

Marc Jones marc.jones at amd.com
Tue Mar 4 23:35:52 CET 2008



Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 04.03.2008 23:16, Marc Jones wrote:
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>  
>>> On 04.03.2008 22:09, Marc Jones wrote:
>>> There are a few things I don't like about the boot log:
>>>    
>>>> Done pll_reset
>>>> done pll reset
>>>> SMBus WAIT ERROR 13
>>>> SMBus READ ERROR: smbus_send_slave_address; device a2SMBus WAIT 
>>>> ERROR 13
>>>>         
>>> All those SMBus error messages. Need to investigate.
>>>     
>>
>> It just means that there isn't a dimm there.
>>   
> 
> Thanks for clearing this up. That means we have to work on the error 
> messages. They are irritating and confusing. And they appear too often.
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> 

They are turned up to level 8 (irritating and confusing). You wouldn't 
see that at level 4.....

Yes, that could be done better. My only excuse is that it was ported 
from stackless asm which couldn't track dimm presence.

Marc

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