Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Bernhard Kuhn wrote:
>
> > Realy interessting point! But if the factory default bios
> > behaves that way, then iŽd like to say award has done a realy
> > bad job :-)
>
> actually, based on what we've seen from what the BIOSes due, Award has
> done a really bad job.
>
> But, reading the SDRAM spec, I have sympathy for BIOS assembly coders. I
> think the guys who wrote the SDRAM spec were mentally impaired. You should
> see all the parameters in that SDRAM EEPROM! Why would those guys have
> thought you could process something that complex WITH NO MEMORY
> WORKING? Duh ...
Ron I thought of a passable work around to the no ram problem, during
memory init. Turn on L1 cache and initialize it. Then you run in cache
while you are initializing memory. It's not fool proof and I still need
to see if I can do it, but it looks to me like this will allow memory
init to be done in C code.
Eric
