[OpenBIOS] [sparc64] Problematic pci at 0 and pci nodes in the device tree
Blue Swirl
blauwirbel at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 21:51:16 CET 2009
On 1/16/09, Jakub Jermar <jakub at jermar.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with the OpenBIOS device tree (the current Qemu version):
> In the root directory, there are currently two pci nodes:
>
> ffd97778 pci at 0
> ffd98808 pci
>
> The "screen" alias is defined as:
> /pci/pci/pci/QEMU,VGA
>
> When HelenOS attempts to lookup this path, it fails, because it matches /pci instead
> of /pci at 0 and /pci does not have any children. HelenOS is normally designed to cope
> with ambiguous node names, but in this case the /pci node matches and sends it to the
> wrong direction. I think the "screen" alias should be either defined using the
> non-ambiguous pci at 0 path components or the /pci node should not exist at all.
>
> Can you confirm this is a problem in the tree?
Yes, there is a duplicate for some reason for most PCI devices. Also
the address is 0, except for IDE and serial.
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