[coreboot] coreboot table and i82801xx GPIO conflicts

[Joseph Smith]

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> From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org]
> On Behalf Of Rudolf Marek
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:42 PM
> To: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] coreboot table and i82801xx GPIO conflicts
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> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:33:32PM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> >> Ah, duh, your right. But what could be causing this then?
> >>
> >> Kernel:
> >> PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
> >> PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
> >
> > Can't say without more kernel message context.
> 
> Well that the PNP subsytem needs to be aware on non-std bars which claim
> this
> IO. Imagine if PCI IO allocator in linux will for some non-assigned
> resource
> assign same region as above. Well this wont happen because PCI io usually
> starts
> at 1000 but in general it might be above 1000 too. I think this was the
> reason
> for this quirk. - The ACPI pnp might claim this region too and in fact
> ACPI
> should do that. Even more specially this quirk is here mostly when ACPI
> fails to
> do so and the IO is above 1000 ;)
> 
> You may ignore this as "mostly harmless".  No really it is harmless for
> you.
> 
Thanks Rudolf that makes sense. That would explain it because I also get
this message from coreboot " Disabling local apic...done." (Although I have
no idea why coreboot disables it?). And this from the kernel:

Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"

You can check out the boot log here to see what I mean:
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-March/032221.html

Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org