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 Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: AMD SB700/SB710/SB750 docs have been released!]
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On Thursday 09 July 2009 10:47 am, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > Might be useful for people hacking on AMD platform drivers and
> > related.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: AMD SB700/SB710/SB750 docs have been released!
> > Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:59:36 +0200
> > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
> > To: Coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org>
> >
> > AMD just released the following docs we need for
> > SB700/SB710/SB750 coreboot support:
> >
> > * AMD SB700/710/750 Register Reference Guide
> > * AMD SB700/710/750 BIOS Developer’s Guide
> > * AMD SB700/710/750 Register Programming Requirements
> > * AMD SB710 Databook
> >
> > Links to all data sheets are at
> > http://www.coreboot.org/Datasheets#AMD_SB700.2FSB710.2FSB750
> >
> > This is a great step towards supporting current RS780/SB700
> > family systems.
> >
> > Immediate benefits of this doc release are:
> > - We can implement SB700/SB710/SB750 support without NDA.
> > - We can study the embedded controller environment and the
> > SuperI/O
>
> [ snip ]
>
> I am running -current on an ASUS M4A78T-E which has the SB750
> chipset. Seems to work fine, -j8 buildworld is 21 minutes,
> buildkernel with modules is about 7 minutes.  I'm not using any of
> the RAID functionality.
>
> The dmesg is here:
>
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/asus_m4a78t-e.dmesg

I implemented SB700 combined mode support for ata(4) on -CURRENT:

http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191568

I did it without the docs and I had many unanswered questions.  Now I 
am very happy to see they are finally released without NDA. :-)

Jung-uk Kim