On Easynote LM85 under both coreboot and vendor BIOS NPORTS is 3, yet port 4 is used for CD-ROM. NPORTS is RO on this chipset and has same value on vendor BIOS as well, so it's not a coreboot bug. Linux does essentially the same, by increasing nports variable if bits in PI are set above nports-1. GRUB ignores PI since this problem was detected.
diff --git a/src/hw/ahci.c b/src/hw/ahci.c index ff5d5f9..3193d81 100644 --- a/src/hw/ahci.c +++ b/src/hw/ahci.c @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ ahci_controller_setup(struct pci_device *pci) dprintf(2, "AHCI: cap 0x%x, ports_impl 0x%x\n", ctrl->caps, ctrl->ports);
- max = ctrl->caps & 0x1f; + max = 0x1f; for (pnr = 0; pnr <= max; pnr++) { if (!(ctrl->ports & (1 << pnr))) continue;