[coreboot] [PATCH] New config option for 440BX northbridge

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 00:14:31 CET 2010


> > If we go through all the Kconfigs for all 440BX boards and identify all
> that
> > have 4 slots, and enter this setting for all of them, done before my
> 440BX
> > ram init code is ready. ;-) There is a reason for expert mode, no?
> 
> I think this goes beyond expert mode. It seems to me it is a setting
> that can render the machine unbootable if configured incorrectly. Even
> for experts, I don't think it should be visible in Kconfig.

I agree.  Since the boards used to be hard coded, lets set all the boards to
match what they were hard coded to.  Then no one gets a broken board from
the change.  To make it easier, the default Kconfig option could match the
hard coded value.

Thanks,
Myles





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