Re: ichwd for ICH8

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:44:02 +0200
Takeharu KATO <takeharu1219_at_ybb.ne.jp> writes:
> BTW, why do you use ich version number to switch WDT operation
> (In particular,  NOREBOOT operation)?
> As far as I think, it is more preferable to use TCO version instead of
> ich version number to this purpose.

There was nothing in the documentation about a "TCO version", and I
didn't want to use arbitrary numbers (1 and 2).  It would probably have
been better to simply use an enum.

> Because 6300ESB is a kind of ICH5 with TCO version 2, isn't it?

It's an ICH5-equivalent chipset for mobile and embedded systems, and it
has what you would call "TCO version 1" (8-bit TCO_TMR at TCOBASE+01H):

http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/datashts/30064103.pdf

DES
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