[LinuxBIOS] badly initialized (?) pci bridge on the M57SLI (with irq table and mptable)

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 20:00:02 CEST 2007


On 10/5/07, echelon at free.fr <echelon at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi gentlemens,
>
>  Sorry for answering so late, but Im back after 3 sleepless nights so Im under
> continuous coffee perfusion simply to stay awake..
>  Firstly to answer to Yinghai, I didn't use dumpio (I don't know what is
> this..). I'm mostly a hardware guy (I come from the "embedded world") so my
> first reaction was to put an oscilloscope probe on the PCI bus..
>  So what have I found out?
>   - 1) with the initial LinuxBIOS code, it looks like some control signals of
> the PCI bus are not correctly driven when on tries to do configuration requests
> under Linux. More specifically, when a 32b read is done on the CONFIG_DATA port
> (0cfc) which should trigger a pci configuration register read, one can see that
> the signal C/BE[3]# (pin 26 - side B on a PCI slot) doesn't rise at a logical
> level of "1" as it should do. Indeed, the PCI bus spec says that the signals
> C/BE carry the PCI command code at the beginning of a PCI transaction (p.23 -
> chapter 3 "Bus Operation"). This code should be "1010" for a configuration read,
> so C/BE[3] should be '1'. In fact it doesn't .. (I have some pics with my
> oscilloscope measurement, if someone is interested by them plz let me know..)
>   - 2) after analising a little bit the code of the mcp55 southbridge in the LB
> source tree (especially the mcp55_early_setup_car.c file), I realised the the
> mcp55 southbridge has some kind of "IO multiplexer" unit (like some modern
> processors in
> the embedded world) which enables the configuration of the mcp55 pins either as
> GPIOs, either as "nominal" functions (PCI control signals for example). So, I
> asked my self if the GPIO configuration was not fitted for the m57sli board..
>   - 3) Btw I figured out that registers of the "IO control unit" of mcp55 can be
> mapped into the IO space by writting into the SYSCTRL_REG of the 00:01.1 pci
> device integrated into the SB. Indeed by using this value as a base (under
> Linux, this register holds the value 0x1400) one can access the GPIO registers
> of MCP55 (beginning @ the 0xc0 offset? maybe..) These are 8 bit registers
> apparently..

that is what i called dumpio

you need to mcp55 NDA to read gpio info, also some schematic have
table about what gpio should be set. ===> good HW designer put that to
make  BIOS engineer life easier.

YH




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