Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:49:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
cc: fretre3618@hotmail.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tenth post about PCI code, need help
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On 8 Jan 2003, Ray Lee wrote:

> > 1. which device is at port address 0xCFB? (please note, NOT 0xCF8)
> 
> 0xcfb ('bee') is the fourth byte of the 32 bit register that sits/starts
> at 0xcf8 ('eight'). Note the difference in the code between the outb and
> outl calls.
> 
> To answer your other questions, I think you'd have better luck reading
> the spec for the x86 pc-style PCI bridge chip, rather than the (generic)
> PCI v2.0 spec itself. The spec for the actual chip is always the final
> authority for what's going on. (Unless, of course, it's wrong...)
> 
> Ray
> 

The problem is that he's discovered something that's not supposed
to be in the code. Only 32-bit accesses are supposed to be made to
the PCI controller ports. He has discovered that somebody has made
some 8-bit accesses that will not become configuration 'transactions'
because they are not 32 bits. According to the spec, such accesses
become direct I/O to some underlying device. So, if some underlying
device shares the same I/O address space as the PCI device, that
machine is broken.

FYI, the mechanism by which ix86 hardware determines if the PCI
port access is a configuration read or configuration write is
the 32-bit access. Any other access cannot be interpreted by
the hardware as a configuration transaction. (Page 321., 
"Into to configuration Mechanisms", PCI System Architecture,
ISBN 0-201-30974-2)


It is possible that somebody had a bad board and found that writing
some junk to this port 'fixed' something. If this is so, then the
code needs some comments. Otherwise, the non-32bit accesses should
be removed.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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