Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Mon Aug 29 2005 - 23:47:44 EST


On 8/29/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > pci_map_rom "sees" that the resource is unassigned by testing the parent
> > pointer, and calls pci_assign_resource() which, with this new patch,
> > will do nothing.
>
> Ehh.. It didn't do anything with the old code either for that case, so
> there's apparently something else also going on.
>
> It would write the base address, but since it wouldn't _enable_ the ROM
> mapping (only the "non-enabled" case changed by this commit), the end
> result from a hw standpoint should be exactly the same: the ROM isn't
> actually mapped.
>
> So after pci_assign_resource(), the resource has literally been assigned,
> but that patch should not have mattered in any way whether it was actually
> _enabled_ or not.
>
> Now, there's clearly a difference. What has always worked is then to do
>
> pci_write_config_dword(dev,
> PCI_ROM_ADDRESS,
> PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE | res->start)
>
> (well, these days you're supposed to use "pcibios_resource_to_bus()" to
> get the start value to write out).
>
> Much preferable is probably to just enable the resource manually _before_
> calling pci_assign_resource, ie do something like.
>
> dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].flags |= IORESOURCE_ROM_ENABLE;
> pci_assign_resource(dev, PCI_ROM_RESOURCE);
>
> But yes, if something used to just blindly set PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE,
> then that got broken. I grepped for that and didn't see anything like it,
> but I guess people are doing it with the magic constant "1"..

Nothing in the driver tree should be using PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE
except drivers/pci/*. Drivers that are still manipulating ROMs
directly should be converted to use the PCI ROM API.

I started to fix these but some of the use is non-obvious. It is best
if the maintainers do it. These files are still directly manipulating
ROMs:

ide/pci/aec62xx.c
ide/pci/cmd64x.c
ide/pci/hpt34x.c
ide/pci/hpt366.c
ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.
ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c
mtd/maps/pci.c
net/sungem.c
net/sunhme.c
scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
video/console/sticore.c
video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c
video/sis/sis_main.c

--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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