[OpenBIOS] Loading a PCI Option rom.

[Tarl Neustaedter]

On 2017-Dec-17 11:47 , Jd Lyons wrote:
>
> Yes, trying to get PCI Passthough working for an Apple OEM nVidia 6600
> PCI-E card, on a x86 host in Qemu-PPC.
>

Oh, crud. It's likely you're tripping over some code created
specifically for the Apple due to Apple's implementation being
defective. I remember this caused many pci card vendors to create
vendor-specific FCodes for their cards, when Apple decided to not fix
the bug in their FCode interpretation. That made it incompatible with
other vendors. I don't remember what the bug was, I retired a couple of
years ago, but we'd periodically run into someone with a PCI card that
didn't work, find out it was supposed to be for an Apple, and they'd
have to get new FCode for their card.

Nvidia considered their FCode highly proprietary, so you won't be able
to get ahold of the source for it. At Sun/Oracle, we had a copy of their
source under a protected tree, which was only available to a limited
number of engineers who had signed non-disclosure agreements with them.
So unfortunately, you aren't likely to be able to get a copy of their
source to debug this.

It looks like it got far enough to create the basic properties in the
tree where it's going to start mapping the card into your virtual
address space (that's what usually follows creating the reg and
address-cells properties). It's worth dumping out the device tree to see
what got created - I see multiple creations of the "#address-cells"
property, which suggests it might have created multiple nodes (you
generally don't want to create the same property twice).