the following patch was just integrated into master: commit b7929add7bf1b40795e0a16ab08fc47858971ccc Author: Kerry Sheh shekairui@gmail.com Date: Wed Jan 4 20:51:47 2012 +0800
Fix multipleVGA cards resource conflict on Windows
If multiple VGA-compatible legacy graphic cards decode the IO range 3B0-3BB, 3C0-3DF and MEM range A00000-BFFFF. Windows 7 complain a resource conflict, so only one VGA card can works at the same time.
There is a discussion in coreboot mail list before, please reference thread: "how to prevent legacy resource conflictwith multipleVGA cards" http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2010-October/061508.html
Linux using VGA Arbiter module(vgaarb) to resolve this resource conflict, Please see the following linux dmesg log, more information can be found in Linux source dir Documentation/vgaarbiter.txt. But it seems that windows don't dealwith this conflict. ~# dmesg | grep -i vgaarb [ 0.774076] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:01.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem [ 0.776065] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:01:00.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=none,l [ 0.780051] vgaarb: loaded [ 0.784049] vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:01:00.0 [ 0.788050] vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:00:01.0
For the second legacy graphic device, coreboot already disabled the IO and MEM decode in function set_vga_bridge_bits(). But it will be enabled again in function pci_set_resource(), if the second legacy vga-compatible graphic device take any IO/MEM resources.
Following log printed by enable_resources() shows the problem: ...snip... PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 06 PCI: 00:01.0 subsystem <- 1022/1410 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 07 <== The first graphic device PCI: 00:01.1 subsystem <- 1022/1410 PCI: 00:01.1 cmd <- 02 PCI: 00:02.0 bridge ctrl <- 0003 PCI: 00:02.0 cmd <- 07 ...snip... PCI: 01:00.0 cmd <- 03 <== The second graphic device PCI: 01:00.1 cmd <- 02 PCI: 02:00.0 cmd <- 02 PCI: 03:00.0 cmd <- 03 done. ...snip...
The IO & MEM decoding on the second vga graphic device should be disabled. Please reference PCI spec. section 3.10 in detail. set_vga_bridge_bits() would do this work for us, it did the right thing, but was put to the wrong place, the setting would be overwritten by assign_resources() later.
In order to make sure the set_vga_bridge_bits() setting not be overwritten by others, moving the call of set_vga_bridge_bits() to the end of dev_configure(), instead of at the beginning.
This patch resolved the dual graphic cards resource conflict in windows7, multiple vga-compatible graphic cards can work together in windows7.
Signed-off-by: Kerry Sheh shekairui@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kerry Sheh kerry.she@amd.com Change-Id: I0de5e3761b51e2723d9c1dc0c39fff692e3a779d
Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Wed Jan 4 13:17:09 2012, giving +1 Reviewed-By: Marc Jones marcj303@gmail.com at Tue Feb 7 00:32:50 2012, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/489 for details.
-gerrit