[coreboot] [OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS SVN r416 breaks coreboot-v3

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 11:10:45 CET 2009


On 1/29/09, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Myles Watson wrote:
>
>
> > Yes.  qemu 0.9.1 works with v2+OpenBIOS and v3+OpenBIOS, but the latest
> qemu
> > doesn't.  The latest qemu works with v2 or v3 +OpenBIOS r186, so it looks
> > like an interaction between OpenBIOS and qemu.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Myles
> >
>
>  Okay, I think I found out what is happening. With coreboot-v3 and OpenBIOS
> SVN then the base address for I/O devices is set to 0x400 which causes
> subsequent hardware to be mapped higher. The backtrace on the hw_error()
> line shows this:
>
>
>  Breakpoint 1, register_ioport_write (start=1296, length=1, size=1,
> func=0x42b105 <ne2000_asic_ioport_write>, opaque=0xc9abb8)
>     at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:392
>  392                 hw_error("register_ioport_write:
> invalid opaque: (start 0x%x, length 0x%x, address 0x%x)", start, length, i);
>  (gdb) print/x start
>  $1 = 0x510
>  (gdb) bt
>  #0  register_ioport_write (start=1296, length=1, size=1, func=0x42b105
> <ne2000_asic_ioport_write>, opaque=0xc9abb8)
>     at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:392
>  #1  0x000000000042bc6b in ne2000_map (pci_dev=0xc9a990, region_num=0,
> addr=1280, size=256, type=1)
>     at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/hw/ne2000.c:771
>  #2  0x0000000000414548 in pci_update_mappings (d=0xc9a990) at
> /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/hw/pci.c:301
>  #3  0x0000000000414706 in pci_default_write_config (d=0xc9a990, address=16,
> val=1281, len=4) at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/hw/pci.c:362
>  #4  0x00000000004148d7 in pci_data_write (opaque=0xc281c0, addr=2147489808,
> val=1281, len=4) at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/hw/pci.c:467
>  #5  0x0000000000483e31 in pci_host_data_writel (opaque=0xc281a0, addr=3324,
> val=1281) at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/hw/pci_host.h:74
>  #6  0x0000000000406818 in ioport_write (index=2, address=3324, data=1281)
> at /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:298
>  #7  0x0000000000406c0d in cpu_outl (env=0xc10650, addr=3324, val=1281) at
> /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:438
>  #8  0x00000000005248fe in helper_outl (port=3324, data=1281) at
> /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/target-i386/op_helper.c:582
>  #9  0x0000000040e5d11c in ?? ()
>  #10 0x00000000000000f4 in ?? ()
>  #11 0x0000000006e64a20 in ?? ()
>  #12 0x0000000006f687ab in ?? ()
>  #13 0x0000000040e5ce30 in ?? ()
>  #14 0x0000000040e603c8 in ?? ()
>  #15 0x0000000008000000 in ?? ()
>  #16 0x00007fff4ef701b0 in ?? ()
>  #17 0x00000000004fcd9c in tb_set_jmp_target (tb=0x406670, n=0,
> addr=2361183241434822607) at ../exec-all.h:240
>  #18 0x000000000040c64f in main_loop () at
> /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:3737
>  #19 0x000000000040f772 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fff4ef70bf8,
> envp=0x7fff4ef70c30) at
> /home/build/src/qemu/trunk/vl.c:5712
>
>
>  So in other words, with current OpenBIOS SVN the I/O space for the network
> card requires more than 0x110 bytes from 0x400 and hence when qemu tries to
> map I/O address 0x510 (which is already mapped to the BIOS I/O port), qemu
> reports the error and panics.
>
>  My quick fix was to apply the following patch to openbios in order to raise
> the io_base further from 0x400 to 0x520 so that no devices appear below the
> BIOS_IO_PORT address of 0x510:
>
>
>  --- drivers/pci.c       (revision 428)
>  +++ drivers/pci.c       (working copy)
>  @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
>         mem_base = arch->mem_base;
>          /* I/O ports under 0x400 are used by devices mapped at fixed
>             location. */
>  -        io_base = arch->io_base + 0x400;
>  +        io_base = arch->io_base + 0x520;
>         path = strdup("");
>         for (bus = 0; bus<0x100; bus++) {
>                 ob_scan_pci_bus(bus, &mem_base, &io_base, &path);
>
>
>  With this patch applied, I am pleased to report that qemu can successfully
> boot openbios once again. Can anyone with more knowledge comment on whether
> this is an adequate solution or not?

Would this patch fix the problem?
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