hi!
I've got a strange problem.
I'm writing a driver for a PCI card.
The card has a problem because the serial eeprom where the pci configuration
data is loaded from is not valid and therefore the PLX-9050 chip gives some
default value. It shows vendor:devid as 10b5:9050 and the kernel identifies
it as a PLX PCI <-> IOBus Bridge. (kernel 2.5.7)
The serial eeprom can be read written at 50h in the local config area.
When I load my driver and it wants to request a memory region it seems that it
is already mapped. (I modified the driver to look for 0x10b5:9050)
So it fails.
The cat /proc/pci shows a memory region at 0xf4200000.
int plc_init_dev1(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
printk("%x\n", pci_resource_start(dev, 0);
return -EBUSY;
if (check_mem_region(pci_resource_start(dev, 0), 128))
return -EBUSY;
}
So why is it already in use?
I have to access that memory area. How can I do it if my driver doesn't load?
That's the only way to modify the eeprom contents.
Thanks.
Gabor
Gabor Kerenyi wrote:
>
> I've got a strange problem.
>
> I'm writing a driver for a PCI card.
> The card has a problem because the serial eeprom where the pci
> configuration data is loaded from is not valid and therefore
> the PLX-9050 chip gives some default value. It shows vendor:devid
> as 10b5:9050 and the kernel identifies it as a PLX PCI <-> IOBus
> Bridge. (kernel 2.5.7)
>
> The serial eeprom can be read written at 50h in the local config
> area. When I load my driver and it wants to request a memory
> region it seems that it is already mapped. (I modified the driver
> to look for 0x10b5:9050)
>
> So it fails.
>
> The cat /proc/pci shows a memory region at 0xf4200000.
>
> int plc_init_dev1(struct pci_dev *dev)
> {
> printk("%x\n", pci_resource_start(dev, 0);
> return -EBUSY;
> if (check_mem_region(pci_resource_start(dev, 0), 128))
> return -EBUSY;
> }
>
> So why is it already in use?
> I have to access that memory area. How can I do it if my driver
> doesn't load? That's the only way to modify the eeprom contents.
Hi Gabor,
I assume you are referring to the single-bit-wide EEPROM interface in
bits 24-28 of the PLX-9050 CNTRL register at offset 0x50 in PCI
configuration space.
Your pci_resource_start call is attempting to map BAR0, not PCI
configuration space. You need to use the other series of pci_* calls
that access config space, in particular, the pci_*_config_* series.
>From /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/pci.txt:
<start quote>
4. How to access PCI config space
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can use pci_(read|write)_config_(byte|word|dword) to access the
config space of a device represented by struct pci_dev *. All these
functions return 0 when successful or an error code (PCIBIOS_...) which
can be translated to a text string by pcibios_strerror. Most drivers
expect that accesses to valid PCI devices don't fail.
If you access fields in the standard portion of the config header,
please use symbolic names of locations and bits declared in <linux/pci.h>.
<end quote>
Good luck,
Ed Vance
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