Hi Ed, On 20.08.2008 18:17, Ed Swierk wrote: > The following set of patches implement support for the Intel EP80579 > Integrated Processor (codename "Tolapai"). This is a fairly powerful > system-on-a-chip (SoC), integrating a CPU, northbridge, southbridge, > SuperIO and (optionally) various security and signal processing > accelerators in a single package. Power consumption ranges from 11 W > for the 600 MHz non-accelerated version to 21 W for the 1.2 GHz > accelerated version. > > From a software perspective, the EP80579 is essentially a Pentium M > CPU core glued to an Intel 3100 northbridge/southbridge/SuperIO, with > a slightly fancier DDR2 memory controller. Thus my patches augment the > existing Intel 3100 code in coreboot. > > The code was written using information in the datasheet available on > the Intel web site, and has been tested on an EP80579 Development > Board (codename "Truxton"), booting a Linux 2.6.25.1 kernel payload. >
Great work! I hope we can get a review done soon and merge it. (I'd like to have this in v3 as well, but I think that's a task left for later.) Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
