[coreboot] [PATCH] 440BX registered SDRAM support

Idwer Vollering vidwer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 00:19:39 CEST 2011


2011/4/1 Keith Hui <buurin at gmail.com>:
> ping?

Adds support for initializing registered SDRAM modules on Intel 440BX
> northbridge.
>
> Drops unneeded romcc-inspired programming tricks.
>
> Only set nbxecc flags (see 440BX datasheet, page 3-16) when a non-ECC
> module has been detected
> in a row via SPD; also drops an unneeded intermediate variable used in
> setting them.
>
> Boot tested on ASUS P2B-LS with regular and registered ECC SDRAM under
> Linux and memtest86+.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Hui <buurin at gmail.com>
>
> Index: src/northbridge/intel/i440bx/raminit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/northbridge/intel/i440bx/raminit.c (revision 6460)
> +++ src/northbridge/intel/i440bx/raminit.c (working copy)
> @@ -721,19 +721,23 @@
>  */
> static void set_dram_row_attributes(void)
> {
> - int i, dra, drb, col, width, value, rps, edosd, ecc, nbxecc;
> + int i, dra, drb, col, width, value, rps;
> u8 bpr; /* Top 8 bits of PGPOL */
> + u8 nbxecc = 0; /* NBXCFG[31:24] */
> + u8 edo, sd, regsd; /* EDO, SDRAM, registered SDRAM */
>
> - edosd = 0;
> + edo = 0;
> + sd = 0;
> + regsd = 1;
> rps = 0;
> drb = 0;
> bpr = 0;
> - nbxecc = 0xff;
>
> for (i = 0; i < DIMM_SOCKETS; i++) {
> unsigned int device;
> device = DIMM0 + i;
> bpr >>= 2;
> + nbxecc >>= 2;
>
> /* First check if a DIMM is actually present. */
> value = spd_read_byte(device, SPD_MEMORY_TYPE);
> @@ -742,13 +746,13 @@
> || value == SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SDRAM) {
>
> if (value == SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_EDO) {
> - edosd |= 0x02;
> + edo = 1;
> } else if (value == SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SDRAM) {
>

Can you add a #define for SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_REGISTERED_SDRAM to
src/include/spd.h as well ? If that is relevant to do, ofcourse.


> - edosd |= 0x04;
> + sd = 1;
> }
> PRINT_DEBUG("Found DIMM in slot %d\n", i);
>
> - if (edosd == 0x06) {
> + if (edo && sd) {
> print_err("Mixing EDO/SDRAM unsupported!\n");
> die("HALT\n");
> }
> @@ -764,24 +768,38 @@
> * TODO: Other register than NBXCFG also needs this
> * ECC information.
> */
> - ecc = spd_read_byte(device, SPD_DIMM_CONFIG_TYPE);
> + value = spd_read_byte(device, SPD_DIMM_CONFIG_TYPE);
>
> /* Data width */
> width = spd_read_byte(device, SPD_MODULE_DATA_WIDTH_LSB);
>
> /* Exclude error checking data width from page size calculations */
> - if (ecc) {
> + if (value) {
> value = spd_read_byte(device,
> SPD_ERROR_CHECKING_SDRAM_WIDTH);
> width -= value;
> /* ### ECC */
> /* Clear top 2 bits to help set up NBXCFG. */
> - ecc &= 0x3f;
> + nbxecc &= 0x3f;
> } else {
> /* Without ECC, top 2 bits should be 11. */
> - ecc |= 0xc0;
> + nbxecc |= 0xc0;
> }
>
> + /* If any installed DIMM is *not* registered, this system cannot be
> + * configured for registered SDRAM.
> + * By registered, only the address and control lines need to be, which
> + * we can tell by reading SPD byte 21, bit 1.
> + */
> + value = spd_read_byte(device, SPD_MODULE_ATTRIBUTES);
> +
> + PRINT_DEBUG("DIMM is ");
> + if ((value & 0x02) == 0) {
> + regsd = 0;
> + PRINT_DEBUG("not ");
> + }
> + PRINT_DEBUG("registered\n");
> +
> /* Calculate page size in bits. */
> value = ((1 << col) * width);
>
> @@ -801,7 +819,6 @@
> * Second bank of 1-bank DIMMs "doesn't have
> * ECC" - or anything.
> */
> - ecc |= 0x80;
> if (dra == 2) {
> dra = 0x0; /* 2KB */
> } else if (dra == 4) {
> @@ -878,7 +895,6 @@
>
> /* If there's no DIMM in the slot, set dra to 0x00. */
> dra = 0x00;
> - ecc = 0xc0;
> /* Still have to propagate DRB over. */
> drb &= 0xff;
> drb |= (drb << 8);
> @@ -895,7 +911,6 @@
> drb >>= 8;
>
> rps |= (dra & 0x0f) << (i * 4);
> - nbxecc = (nbxecc >> 2) | (ecc & 0xc0);
> }
>
> /* Set paging policy register. */
> @@ -910,20 +925,19 @@
> pci_write_config8(NB, NBXCFG + 3, nbxecc);
> PRINT_DEBUG("NBXECC[31:24] has been set to 0x%02x\n", nbxecc);
>
> - /* Set DRAMC[4:3] to proper memory type (EDO/SDRAM).
> - * TODO: Registered SDRAM support.
> - */
> - edosd &= 0x07;
> - if (edosd & 0x02) {
> - edosd |= 0x00;
> - } else if (edosd & 0x04) {
> - edosd |= 0x08;
> + /* Set DRAMC[4:3] to proper memory type (EDO/SDRAM/Registered SDRAM). */
> +
> + /* i will be used to set DRAMC[4:3]. */
> + if (regsd && sd) {
> + i = 0x10; // Registered SDRAM
>

The datasheets says that this are bits: i = 0x2, not 0x10.

+ } else if (sd) {
> + i = 0x08; // SDRAM
>

i = 0x1, not 0x8

+ } else {
> + i = 0; // EDO
>
}
> - edosd &= 0x18;
>
> - /* edosd is now in the form needed for DRAMC[4:3]. */
> value = pci_read_config8(NB, DRAMC) & 0xe7;
> - value |= edosd;
> + value |= i;
> pci_write_config8(NB, DRAMC, value);
> PRINT_DEBUG("DRAMC has been set to 0x%02x\n", value);
> }
>
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