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9elements Takes over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable Skylake Support Within Coreboot(phoronix.com)
44 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 4 comments
anonymousDan 2 days ago | parent [-]

Has anyone played around with this before? Do you know if it is possible to use it to manipulate the intel memory controller (e.g. to modify certain RAM behaviours like refresh rate)? Also, is it only available for the specific hardware platform mentioned?

wmf 2 days ago | parent [-]

The memory controller is probably configured by the Intel FSP binary blob so you can only tweak what it allows you to.

Firmware is specific to each motherboard but if you know what you're doing and have motherboard schematics you can modify Coreboot to support different motherboards that use already-supported chips.

anonymousDan 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the info. How would you go about figuring out what the blob allows you to configure? Is it documented anywhere (e.g. an Intel Manual)?

wmf a day ago | parent [-]

https://github.com/intel/FSP/tree/master/SkylakeFspBinPkg/Do... ?