[coreboot] Creating PIRQ table

[Gergely Kiss]

Hi Sergej,

thanks a lot for your feedback, it's much appreciated.

As far as I can tell, my board only has 8 IRQ slots while the one you
ported has 10. I believe this is (partially) due to the number of PCI-e
slots does not match (the Biostar board has one extra PCI-e x16 slot) so
there definitely is a difference regardless of sharing the same chipset.

Can you please share some information on how you fetched the PIRQ table
from the vendor firmware? I have tried the (now deprecated) getpir utility
but it could not find a PIRQ table neither in the vendor firmware nor in
the memory.

Is there some other tool I could use?

Thanks,
Gergely

On 28 November 2017 at 19:59, Sergej Ivanov <getinaks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Almost everyone socket AM1 boards have same PIRQ tables. While porting
> Biostar AM1ML i've dumped this table from vendor UEFI (using old method,
> that was depricated long time ago). BTW don't forget to remove additional
> SIO config code from romstage.
>
> 28 нояб. 2017 г. 19:16 пользователь "Gergely Kiss" <mail.gery at gmail.com>
> написал:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> my name is Gergely Kiss and I'm currently working on porting Coreboot to
>> the ASUS AM1I-A board.
>>
>> I'm a great fan of open source software, I've contributed a few times to
>> some well-known projects like Squid, Monodevelop and Openwrt, just to name
>> a few.
>>
>> I would need a little bit of help from the devs about how to create the
>> PCI IRQ routing table for my board (the easiest way possible).
>>
>> I'm using the Biostar AM1ML board as a template as it looks to be a very
>> similar board as the one I have. The only differences I can see is the
>> SuperIO (ITE 8623E) & the audio chip (Realtek ALC887-VD) and also some
>> minor things with the board layout so I'm not expecting to have too much
>> difficulties.
>>
>> Looking at the file https://review.coreboot.org/cg
>> it/coreboot.git/tree/src/mainboard/biostar/am1ml/irq_tables.c, the
>> following questions came to my mind:
>>
>> * Do I really have to follow the "long way" as outlined in the Wiki page
>> at https://www.coreboot.org/Creating_Valid_IRQ_Tables? Couldn't I just
>> fetch the routing table from the OEM BIOS somehow and implement it in the
>> source?
>> * What's the meaning of the fields "link" & "bitmap"? Are these common
>> for all boards with the same chipset? Where should I look up this
>> information?
>> * I believe I have to create as many entries within the struct as many
>> IRQ slots exist for the board. Am I right?
>>
>> I found a table in the board's manual (attached) which looks useful but
>> I'm afraid it might not contain all the information I need to construct a
>> valid routing table.
>>
>> As for the SuperIO chip, I think I won't have too much issues getting it
>> to work as it looks like ITE SIO chips are quite similar from the
>> developer's perspective but I still miss having a datasheet available. I'll
>> try to reach out to the vendor to see if they are willing to share a
>> datasheet with me.
>>
>> Any help from you guys is much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Gergely
>>
>>
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