On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:52:23PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >I've go a newbie x86 BIOS question: is there a BIOS function that
> >can be called to reset a PCI device? (By "reset a device" I mean
> >raise the #RST PCI signal line to electrical high for 1.5 seconds).
> >I know that BIOS does this during a soft reboot, but I was wondering
> >if there's a stand-alone function for doing this while the system is up
> >and running.
>
> Unlikely - if you mean just resetting one PCI device, it's likely
> electrically impossible on many, if not most machines as the RST lines
> will be tied together on all slots.
I was afraid of that.
> In any case, I don't think - or at least would hope - that a PCI device
> going so far into the weeds that it can't be recovered without a RST
> would be a rare situation.
Well, this comes up in the case of having kexec take over from a crashed
kernel; the state of any given PCI card is unclear, and its conceptually
easiest to hit them with a hammer to put them back into a known state.
For hotplug slots, this can be accomplished by toggling power to a slot,
but not all slots out there are hot-pluggable.
The other situation where this is useful is in recovering from a PCI bus
error (e.g. parity error); but his has additional complications.
I've got someone here asking about the LSI megaraid controller;
appearently its under-documented, and it can hang hard on kexec.
Hitting it with a reset would make life simpler.
--linas
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