1# amdtools 2Various tools for AMD platforms 3 4## A tool to update the SPI speed set in the EFS table 5This works for Stoney Ridge and Zen class AMD processors. 6 - update_efs_spi_speed 7 8## A set of tools to compare (extended) K8 memory settings. 9 - k8-compare-pci-space.pl 10 - k8-interpret-extended-memory-settings.pl 11 - k8-read-mem-settings.sh 12 - parse-bkdg.pl 13 14Before you can use them, you need to massage the relevant BKDG 15sections into useable data. Here's how. 16 17 1. First, you need to acquire a copy of the K8 BKDG. Go here: 18 Rev F: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/32559.pdf 19 2. Make sure pdftotext is installed (it's in the poppler-utils 20 package on Debian/Ubuntu). 21 3. Run the bkdg through pdftotext: 22 `pdftotext -layout 32559.pdf 32559.txt` 23 4. Extract sections 4.5.15 - 4.5.19 from the file, and save it 24 separately, say as bkdg-raw.data. 25 5. Finally run the txt file through the parse-bkdg.pl script like so: 26 `parse-bkdg.pl < bkdg-raw.data > bkdg.data` 27 28Now we have the bkdg.data file that is used by the other scripts. 29 30If you want to test the scripts without doing all this work, you 31can use some sample input files from the 'example_input/' directory. 32