1 2 3This is a set of tools to compare (extended) K8 memory settings. 4 5Before you can use them, you need to massage the relevant BKDG sections into 6useable data. Here's how. 7 8First, you need to acquire a copy of the K8 BKDG. Go here: 9 10 Rev F: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/32559.pdf 11 12Then make sure pdftotext is installed (it's in the poppler-utils package on Debian/Ubuntu). 13 14Now run the bkdg through pdftotext: 15 16 pdftotext -layout 32559.pdf 32559.txt 17 18Now extract sections 4.5.15 - 4.5.19 from the file, and save it separately, say as bkdg-raw.data. 19 20Finally run the txt file through the parse-bkdg.pl script like so: 21 22 parse-bkdg.pl < bkdg-raw.data > bkdg.data 23 24Now we have the bkdg.data file that is used by the other scripts. 25 26If you want to test the scripts without doing all this work, you can use some 27sample input files from the 'example_input/' directory. 28 29-- 30Ward Vandewege, 2009-10-28. 31ward@jhvc.com 32 33