On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:14:02 +0200, Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de wrote:
On 27.04.2009 9:55 Uhr, Joseph Smith wrote:
Well, I have confirmed the problem. Looks there is something crazy about how the ethernet and modem (even though the IP1000 doesn't actually have
a
modem) are setup. If I disable the ICH4 ethernet and enable the AC97
ICH4
modem, sure as shit it boots up everytime (VGA too) and all IRQS look great. If I enable both of them EVERYTHING gets IRQ 0, and I have
issues.
If I enable ethernet and disable the modem (this is the way it should
be)
EVERYTHING gets IRQ 0, and I have issues.....
Anyone seen this kind of thing before? I have no idea how to fix this one....
Well now were getting somewhere. It is as I thought. The modem and Ethernet were not playing nice causing io read/write issues under 0x200, hence the unexpected exception errors. The IRQ 0 problems also make sense because the interrupt controllers live in that io area correct? I guess on this board they were not designed to coincide...there isn't an actual on-board modem anyways.
So here is what I did to get it working, and this is the part I need help with.
- In auto.c I disabled the modem right off through the LPC device:
/* Set the LPC device statically. */ dev = PCI_DEV(0x0, 0x1f, 0x0);
/* Disable Modem. */ pci_write_config8(dev, 0xf2, 0x40);
- I completely removed the modem code from
src/mainboard/thomson/ip1000/Config.lb
- device pci 1f.6 off end # AC'97 modem
- Then I completely removed the modem code from
src/southbridge/intel/i82801xx/i82801xx_ac97.c
-static const struct pci_driver i82801db_ac97_modem __pci_driver = {
- .ops = &ac97_ops,
- .vendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL,
- .device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801DB_AC97_MODEM,
-};
And boom :-) I am booting like a rocket ship in action:-)
I have tried Just step 1 with no luck, and step 1 & 2 with no luck. So even with the device disabled via the LPC and coreboot something from the i82801db_ac97_modem() is still partially initializing causing this io crazyness. I can submit a patch for steps 1-2 but....my question is how can I completely disable the i82801db_ac97_modem() driver without having to manually delete code every time I use a new revision???
Maybe a #ifdef to global disable modem define???
You've got this working but you are kind of abusing the build system, esp. if you are modifying files like i82801xx_ac97.c. I will leave it to someone else to discuss why you don't want to do step 3 ... I'm gonna go sleep now :-)
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