34 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 1 comment
MisterTea 1 hour ago
From my understanding, memory training is/was a closely held secret of memory makers and EDA IP houses who sold memory controller IP to all the chip vendors. This in turn makes fully open motherboard firmware almost impossible as no one can write code for memory training to bring up the chip. That piece of code has to be loaded as a blob - if you can get the blob.
Joel_Mckay 4 minutes ago
It is usually the IP licensing, as spinning a board isn't always complex.

Note, it is actually easier to profile a known dram chip set bonded to the PCB. A lot products already do this like phones, tablets, and thin laptops.

Where as SSD drives being a wear item, should be removable by end users. =3

brcmthrowaway 49 minutes ago
Why do we need training?