[coreboot] On the credibility of 'getpir'.

[Joseph Smith]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:46:48 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson
<mats.andersson at gisladisker.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:36:36 -0700
> Ron Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Mats Erik Andersson
>> <mats.andersson at gisladisker.se> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am beginning to doubt the credibility of 'getpir'.
>>
>> I don't think it is a getpir issue. The issue is that, increasingly,
>> the PIR tables in the BIOS are completely wrong. I see this more and
>> more all the time, but it was
>> a problem as long as 8 years ago.
>>
>> It's a hard problem to resolve.
>>
>> And, of course, the MP and ACPI tables have similar errors. I love PCs
> :-)
>>
>> ron
>>
> 
> Hello Ron,
> 
> I am so overjoyed by my experiment after the initial letter,
> that I must point this out to the list. Since two weeks now
> there has been a message that Linux could not find any routed
> irq-signal for the usb_uhci part with every Coreboot image
> that I so far have checked for my msi/ms6147. Based on the remark
> I made in the letter, I now corrected by hand the relevant
> entry in irq_tables.c to read
> 
>    {0x00,(0x07<<3)|0x2, {{0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0xdeb8},
>                          {0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0xdeb8}},
>           0x0, 0x0}, /* USB-UHCI */
> 
> Here, Getpir had all '0x00' instead of every desired linkage '0x6#'.
> 
> Building and testing the new Coreboot is an almost complete success:
> the usb host controller is now getting an irq assigned and I can
> attach and mount a flash memory to the usb port!
> 
> The only shortcoming is that my specifications in i82371eb/Config.lb
> as to io and irq for this device 07:2 are completely ignored.
> Could some kind soul tell me how and where I can achieve such
> assignments at my will, and not having to trust some defaults
> that Coreboot somehow and somewhere pulls out of the hat.
> 
> Being pleased with todays progress with USB, I send my regards
> 
I don't think coreboot pulls it out of a hat. I could have something to do
with your southbridge code. Which southbridge do you have?

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org