Developer Manual
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Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!
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Introduction
Hardware Overview
LinuxBIOS Overview
Serial output and the Super I/O
Northbridge
RAM init
Resources:
- Understanding DDR Serial Presence Detect (SPD) Table
- Micron 512 MB SDRAM Datasheet (PDF) -- contains some helpful explanations