[LinuxBIOS] WIP Support for RCA RM4100 - i82830 Complete

joe at smittys.pointclark.net joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Mon Sep 24 15:19:47 CEST 2007


Quoting Tom Sylla <tsylla at gmail.com>:

> On 9/18/07, joe at smittys.pointclark.net <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>
>> If you check out the pci_bus_enable_resources() function in
>> pci_device.c i put these tests right before it calls the
>> pci_dev_enable_resources() function. The tests were to clear the serr
>> and parity error bits from Primary Device Status Register 0x06 and
>> Secondary Status Register 0x1E. As you can see above the bits are not
>> clearing from the Primary Device Status Register 0x06 and they are
>> from the Secondary Status Register 0x1E. Then what happens is in the
>> pci_dev_enable_resources() function it goes enable the serr and parity
>> checking on the Command Register 0x04 and that is where it chokes. I
>> am assuming it is because the bits are not clearing from the Primary
>> Device Status Register 0x06. But, why won't it let me clear these
>> bits? Note: On these bits your supposed to write a "1" to them to
>> clear them back to 0.  HELP??
>
> Those bits *mean* something. You seem to be having parity or system
> errors on that PCI segment. You need to figure out why. I assume that
> with the factory BIOS you do not get serr or perr secondary status
> reported?
>
So how do I go about finding out what is causing the parity error??  
And why does the factory bios ignore this?


Thanks - Joe




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