Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 28 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I'd be suprised if they don't get it. At least the basics. For
> > things like the AMD760 the documentation spells out fairly clearly
> > where everything should be coming from. And the SPD isn't magic just
> > a label in silcon form that the manufacturers add to their DIMMS.
> >
>
> What we did see on one bios is that they didn't do as good a job with SPD
> as Ollie. I have also been told that BIOS programmers do a suboptimal job
> since there are so many SDRAMs out there with SPD data that is wrong.
Using SDRAMS with incorrect serial EEPROMS is a lame excuse, for not
using the SPD data.
I think what happens is that board manufactures license a BIOS kit
from award, or ali. Customize it for their board. And then ship the
board. But I don't think this gets much code reuse, between different
board manufacturers. And because you have so many people doing it you
have serious variations in quality.
Eric
