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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-03-15 20:41:17 +0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-05-29 02:13:53 +0400
commit805afb6997ce45093981f27afbe4e21ccde3d990 (patch)
tree94c331f0250755b5f4c913e5fff53e3fa3eea72e /drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
parent64e1fdaf55d61eb79ae970f78bb00edf6aa696fb (diff)
downloadlinux-805afb6997ce45093981f27afbe4e21ccde3d990.tar.xz
e752x_edac: provide more info about how DIMMS/ranks are mapped
No funtional changes here. Only the comments got updated. Reviewed-by: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c26
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c b/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
index d28a6851bb18..3186512c9739 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
* This file may be distributed under the terms of the
* GNU General Public License.
*
- * See "enum e752x_chips" below for supported chipsets
+ * Implement support for the e7520, E7525, e7320 and i3100 memory controllers.
*
- * Datasheet:
+ * Datasheets:
* http://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/chipsets/e7525-memory-controller-hub-datasheet.html
+ * ftp://download.intel.com/design/intarch/datashts/31345803.pdf
*
* Written by Tom Zimmerman
*
@@ -16,8 +17,6 @@
* Wang Zhenyu at intel.com
* Dave Jiang at mvista.com
*
- * $Id: edac_e752x.c,v 1.5.2.11 2005/10/05 00:43:44 dsp_llnl Exp $
- *
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -190,6 +189,25 @@ enum e752x_chips {
I3100 = 3
};
+/*
+ * Those chips Support single-rank and dual-rank memories only.
+ *
+ * On e752x chips, the odd rows are present only on dual-rank memories.
+ * Dividing the rank by two will provide the dimm#
+ *
+ * i3100 MC has a different mapping: it supports only 4 ranks.
+ *
+ * The mapping is (from 1 to n):
+ * slot single-ranked double-ranked
+ * dimm #1 -> rank #4 NA
+ * dimm #2 -> rank #3 NA
+ * dimm #3 -> rank #2 Ranks 2 and 3
+ * dimm #4 -> rank $1 Ranks 1 and 4
+ *
+ * FIXME: The current mapping for i3100 considers that it supports up to 8
+ * ranks/chanel, but datasheet says that the MC supports only 4 ranks.
+ */
+
struct e752x_pvt {
struct pci_dev *bridge_ck;
struct pci_dev *dev_d0f0;