AMD Publishes New SB Register, Programming Docs

[snogglethorpe]

Thanks AMD!

It's so nice to finally see more major hardware companies actually getting the point that widespread knowledge of how to use your hardware is good, and helps you sell more chips...

I work for a big semiconductor company, and have met many older managers who simply cannot come to terms with idea of giving anything away without strict conditions and renumeration, even if restricting information in the end hurts the company far more than any advantage it confers. There's a sort of ingrained conservatism and downright control-freakery that seems very hard to get rid of except though generational change.

[DanL]

so you can get your pear (my imaginary company's name) computer

The Pear Computers name has already been used in multiple places as a way to imply "Apple" without copyright infringement. Try again.

[Pfanne]

now we only need a company that focuses on tinkering a complete oss experience arround amd hardware...
something like the open source apple with hard+software that works together perfectly.
so you can get your pear (my imaginary company's name) computer and you know itll work perfectly with linux...
unlike other companies like acer or asus they dont have to sell crippled hardware with their linux computers, because they cant lose any microsoft partnership contracts....
haaaaaaa, in my imaginary world everything would be sooooooooooo fine...

[mirv]

cheers AMD!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Publishes New SB Register, Programming Docs

While most of the time getting new documentation out of AMD is for their ATI graphics processors, today they have pushed out four documents that amount to several hundred pages of information covering their latest Southbridges. The AMD SB700/710/750 chipsets are now well documented in these NDA-free programming guides that also cover the registers for this hardware.Over at AMD Developer Central is the AMD SB700/710/750 Register Reference Guide, AMD SB700/710/750 BIOS Developer???s Guide, AMD SB700/710/750 Register Programming Requirements, and lastly is the AMD SB710 Databook.Sure, programming guides and register descriptions for a southbridge is not nearly as exciting as for the latest ATI GPU, but this information is what the CoreBoot developers (the same ones working on Flashrom) have been after for a while...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM3Ng