[flashrom] FCH code names (was: A quick hack to support AMD Family 16h SOC)

Wei Hu wei at aristanetworks.com
Fri Jul 26 19:29:26 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Tauner
<stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> The code names are complicated.
>
> Jaguar describes the CPU(APU) architecture (succeeding Bobcat), while
> Kabini (embedded, htpc, laptops) and Temash (tablets) describe SoC
> families with those cores.
>
> Hudson seems to be the generic code name(!?) for all FCH aka
> southbridges since sb9xx which came to be when they started with their
> fusion aka APU development, hence there are multiple generations of
> Hudson (3 AFAIK, where Yangtze/Salton are #3).
>
> The integrated FCH for Kabini and Temash are codenamed "Yangtze" and
> "Salton" respectively. I am not aware of the previous code names...
> The only other FCH name i could find is Yuba but that was never
> released because it was cancelled together with Krishna/Wichita.

Is it right to call out Hudson for incompatible SPI changes though? We
might need to call it hudson3 or something. What I seem to see in
coreboot is they try to bundle compatible changes into hudson and for
incompatible changes just call it yangtze.




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