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

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 20:42:17 CET 2009


On 1/28/09, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> wrote:
> Mark Cave-Ayland a écrit :
>
> > Hi everyone,
>  >
>  > Whilst playing around with openbios to try and understand how it works
>  > on different platforms, I found that using coreboot-v3 with openbios SVN
>  > causes openbios to panic on boot under qemu SVN. The trace can be found
>  > here:
>  >
>  > http://pastebin.siriusit.co.uk/coreboot-v3-panic.txt
>  >
>  > With the help of some people on the coreboot mailing list, I've
>  > performed an SVN bisection and found that the panic starts appearing at
>  > r416 in openbios SVN for which the commit message can be found here:
>  >
>  > http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2009-January/003401.html
>  >
>  > However, I can't find any reference to the rationale behind the commit.
>  > Can anyone explain further explain whether is commit is correct or not?
>
>
> The rationale is available here:
>  http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2009-January/003391.html
>
>  This commit fixes two different problems encountered on SPARC64 and
>  PowerPC. First of all it makes sure that no PCI device get allocated
>  port 0, which doesn't exists.
>
>  Secondly it fixes problems with non-PCI devices that are using I/O ports
>  at fixed location. This includes the video card, i8259, rtc, serial
>  port, hard-disk controller, etc. Without this patch, the PCI cards are
>  getting allocated the I/O ports of those devices, thus causing crashes.
>
>  I wonder why it causes problem on x86. What is the initial value of
>  arch->io_base? I am unable to find that looking at the code.

I think "arch" (a bit unfortunate name choice for grepping) does not
get initialized at all for x86.




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