[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: [Linux-fbdev-devel] gx1fb: (try to) play nicer with various BIOSes

[Richard Smith]

This came across the linux-fb-dev list.

I know some people are using the GX1 so I'm posting it here.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Vrabel <dvrabel at arcom.com>
Date: Jan 3, 2006 10:18 AM
Subject: [Linux-fbdev-devel] gx1fb: (try to) play nicer with various BIOSes
To: linux-fbdev-devel list <linux-fbdev-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>


Hi,

Seems that the CS5530A chip used in Geode GX1 systems has some crazy
feature that causes SMI traps when accessing the PCI configuration space
of the video device.  Various GX1 BIOSes seem to use this 'feature' to
hide the real BARs of the device.  This patch disables these traps (in
an  early PCI fixup) so that Linux sees the real, physical BARs and not
the virtual ones provided by the BIOS.

This should allow the GX1 framebuffer driver to work on more systems
that have different BIOSes as the driver no longer guesses at what the
virtual BARs mean.

I'm not entirely sure it the correct solution as I can neither test
regular VGA console nor the X's 'cyrix' video driver so there might be
some breakage there -- probably best to get some more testers before
applying it.

David Vrabel
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Index: linux-2.6-working/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-working.orig/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c        2006-01-03
08:46:51.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-working/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c     2006-01-03
15:59:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -442,3 +442,19 @@
 }
 DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_ENABLE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_TI, 0x8032,
                         pci_post_fixup_toshiba_ohci1394);
+
+
+/*
+ * Prevent the BIOS trapping accesses to the Cyrix CS5530A video device
+ * configuration space.
+ */
+static void __devinit pci_early_fixup_cyrix_5530(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+       u8 r;
+       /* clear 'F4 Video Configuration Trap' bit */
+       pci_read_config_byte(dev, 0x42, &r);
+       r &= 0xfd;
+       pci_write_config_byte(dev, 0x42, r);
+}
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CYRIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_CYRIX_5530_LEGACY,
+                       pci_early_fixup_cyrix_5530);
Index: linux-2.6-working/drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-working.orig/drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.c    
2006-01-03 08:46:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-working/drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.c  2006-01-03
16:00:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -215,11 +215,11 @@
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;

-       ret = pci_request_region(dev, 1, "gx1fb (video)");
+       ret = pci_request_region(dev, 0, "gx1fb (video)");
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;
-       par->vid_regs = ioremap(pci_resource_start(dev, 1),
-                               pci_resource_len(dev, 1));
+       par->vid_regs = ioremap(pci_resource_start(dev, 0),
+                               pci_resource_len(dev, 0));
        if (!par->vid_regs)
                return -ENOMEM;

@@ -229,12 +229,9 @@
        if (!par->dc_regs)
                return -ENOMEM;

-       ret = pci_request_region(dev, 0, "gx1fb (frame buffer)");
-       if (ret < 0 )
-               return -EBUSY;
        if ((fb_len = gx1_frame_buffer_size()) < 0)
                return -ENOMEM;
-       info->fix.smem_start = pci_resource_start(dev, 0);
+       info->fix.smem_start = gx_base + 0x800000;
        info->fix.smem_len = fb_len;
        info->screen_base = ioremap(info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len);
        if (!info->screen_base)




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Richard A. Smith