Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 13:44:53 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:59:35AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:29:58PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > Okay who can teach me how to force hooks and ram this down the PPC
> >
> > pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_COMMAND, 0x05);
> >
> > I have all the address registered.
> > My new PPC G3 (7600/132) toy is not allowing IO's on PCI cards to come
> > alive. Thus I get some of the most beuatiful lockups ever.
> > I suspect that this needs to be handled down in the arch.
> >
> > ./linux/arch/ppc/kernel/{chrp_pci.c|mbx_pci.c|pmac_pci.c|prep_pci.c}
> >
> > Basically I can not get the IO's active, regardless of BIOS on the card.
> > Yes this is the old trick that used to work of making ix86 cards run in
> > non ix86-pci slots.
> >
> > Here is the fun part, I have a native mac/ppc Ultra-66 card that is fin
> > under Mac OS, but the IO's are not enable in linux and it crash like a big
> > dog also.
>
> The same happens for OHCI on new Macs. The correct function to use is:
>
> pci_enable_device(dev);
>
> This function will enable the i/o, mem and irqs, and assign them if they
> were not assigned for some reason, too.

Once all the PCI oddities are worked out of 2.4.0-testX on PPC, yes :)
Right now I have to disable that call in aic7xxx to use my adaptec card
(none of the pci patches yet seem to work on all machines).

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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