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Re: RAM Upgrade

 

On 05/16/2012 04:34 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 05/16/2012 05:48 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
Had an interesting comment earlier:

http://www.altechnative.net/2012/01/04/alleviating-memory-pressure-on-toshiba-ac100/#comment-1236


Is the BCT encoding of this information known/documented?

I hope all the relevant registers are documented in the TRM (which
despite the comment is indeed available to almost anyone; register to
become a registered Tegra developer at
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-2-technical-reference-manual)

Then you'll need to correlate the BCT fields with those registers. I
don't believe we document the BCT format anywhere at the moment. You
might be able to work out the mapping by reading the field names in the
cbootimage textual BCT format; see
git://gitorious.org/trimslice-u-boot/trimslice-u-boot.git. Or trial and
error with a JTAG probe.

That all said, getting working SDRAM timing parameters for a new chip
without support from the NVIDIA memqual people who do this for a living
is likely to be extremely challenging. I would not recommend trying this.

Hmm... I wonder if something like the T101 uses compatible chips. If that was the case, we could pinch the relevant register settings from the T101's BCT, and use the same chips it uses. And hope that the difference in the board layout doesn't affect the timings...

Gordan


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