Code must not access the smbus registers before the RTC power well is ready (PSON gating). Some boards boot faster than this power well stabilization, and thus see bad data when accessing the smbus registers. --- src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.h | 1 + src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.h b/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.h index 54a46f8..d54c533 100644 --- a/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.h +++ b/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.h @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ #define IDE_UDMA 0x50
/* SMBus */ +#define VT8237R_PSON 0x82 #define VT8237R_POWER_WELL 0x94 #define VT8237R_SMBUS_IO_BASE_REG 0xd0 #define VT8237R_SMBUS_HOST_CONF 0xd2 diff --git a/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c b/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c index 357ad81..4372a4a 100644 --- a/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c +++ b/src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c @@ -132,12 +132,15 @@ u8 smbus_read_byte(u8 dimm, u8 offset) return val; }
+#define PSONREADY_TIMEOUT 0x7fffffff + /** * Enable the SMBus on VT8237R-based systems. */ void enable_smbus(void) { device_t dev; + int loops;
/* Power management controller */ dev = pci_locate_device(PCI_ID(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, @@ -150,6 +153,12 @@ void enable_smbus(void) die("Power management controller not found\n"); }
+ /* Make sure the RTC power well is up before touching smbus. */ + loops = 0; + while (!(pci_read_config8(dev, VT8237R_PSON) & (1<<6)) + && loops < PSONREADY_TIMEOUT) + ++loops; + /* * 7 = SMBus Clock from RTC 32.768KHz * 5 = Internal PLL reset from susp