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authorAngel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>2020-12-11 23:48:51 +0100
committerHung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org>2020-12-14 08:24:12 +0000
commitc2d6f5f4da3c89b3f432f05fb31879b8d4d50698 (patch)
treebac06ccd5cb0dab9ccb202c819c62e1b67f60c14 /src/northbridge/intel
parent71e4545e5aeeccae016ef71fe6306a49116b766a (diff)
nb/intel/ironlake: Add comment about MCH scan chains
Change-Id: I3e60cfc1fd3352b8b0c7460503179425cc593d36 Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/48589 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
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-rw-r--r--src/northbridge/intel/ironlake/raminit.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/northbridge/intel/ironlake/raminit.c b/src/northbridge/intel/ironlake/raminit.c
index ecf8ef8576..beb22445fe 100644
--- a/src/northbridge/intel/ironlake/raminit.c
+++ b/src/northbridge/intel/ironlake/raminit.c
@@ -101,6 +101,15 @@ static void read128(u32 addr, u64 * out)
out[1] = ret.hi;
}
+/*
+ * Ironlake memory I/O timings are located in scan chains, accessible
+ * through MCHBAR register groups. Each channel has a scan chain, and
+ * there's a global scan chain too. Each chain is broken into smaller
+ * sections of N bits, where N <= 32. Each section allows reading and
+ * writing a certain parameter. Each section contains N - 2 data bits
+ * and two additional bits: a Mask bit, and a Halt bit.
+ */
+
/* OK */
static void write_1d0(u32 val, u16 addr, int bits, int flag)
{