linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: tune up ICH4 quirk for broken BIOSes

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Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:16:36 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: tune up ICH4 quirk for broken BIOSes

On Friday, January 07, 2011 04:29:00 pm Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/08/2011 12:03 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Friday, January 07, 2011 01:44:35 pm Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> On 01/06/2011 08:24 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>> Theoretically, ACPI tells us about the GPIO/TCO/etc. regions in a
> >>> generic way via namespace devices or something in the static tables.
> >>> Is that generic information missing, or is it there and Linux is
> >>> ignoring it?  If we're ignoring it, I'd rather fix that.
> >>
> >> It works for most boxes I would say. Try to google for "claimed by ICH4
> >> ACPI/GPIO/TCO", it reports sane ranges like 0400-047f or 4000-407f.
> > 
> > My point is that BIOS should be telling the OS about GPIO/TCO/etc.
> > regions via an ACPI mechanism, and, ideally, we would use that rather
> > than reading the address out of chipset-dependent registers.
> > 
> > Even though PMBASE says the ACPI registers occupy 128 bytes from
> > 0x100-0x17f, it's likely there's no actual conflict between the
> > last 16 bytes and the IDE device.
> 
> I wouldn't say so. According to the datasheet 0x60-0x7f of the space
> (i.e. 0x160-0x17f here) is for TCO registers. There:
> 0x10 -- Software IRQ Generation Register (i.e. 0x170)
> 0x11-0x1f -- reserved (0x171-0x17f)
> 
> So at least 0x170 should be conflicting. Unless TCO is unused/disabled
> and not mapped there at all. May be that the case?

Maybe.  All your patch does is avoid reserving this 0x100-0x1f7
region; it doesn't actually *move* anything.  And the IDE device
apparently works at the 0x170 compatibility address.  So the
ICH ACPI stuff is still at 0x100-0x17f, so apparently they don't
conflict or maybe the ICH ACPI stuff is disabled.  If the box
doesn't even have ACPI, I suppose there would be no reason to
have the ACPI registers enabled.  Is there something in ICH
that tells us whether they're enabled?

> > ACPI probably reports this region via the FADT (the GPE PM register
> > blocks) and possibly a PNP0C02 device.  These will probably report
> > something that doesn't conflict with the legacy IDE ports, i.e., a
> > subset of the 0x100-0x17f range.
> > 
> > Ooooh, I notice in the bugzilla that something's wrong with SMBIOS
> > (comment 29) and ACPI is disabled because we couldn't find the
> > RSDP (dmesg in comment 27).  What sort of machine is this, anyway?
> > We didn't find PNPBIOS, either.
> 
> Hmm, it looks like some old crap. What exact information you would like
> to know? I've just asked if ACPI is not disabled in BIOS. There should
> be no machine without ACPI running still in the 21st century, I think.

I'm just wondering if the machine actually does have ACPI, but
there's some Linux problem related to finding the tables.  If it's
really old enough, that wouldn't be so surprising, but I see USB
and gigabit NIC hardware, so it's not truly ancient.

Bjorn
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