Re: Call for PIIX4 chipset testers

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Darren Salt wrote:
>
>   $ dmesg | grep PIIX4
>   PCI quirk: region 5000-503f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
>   PCI quirk: region 4000-401f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
>   PIIX4 devres C PIO at 0100-0107
>   PIIX4 devres I PIO at 00e0-00e3
>   PIIX4 devres J PIO at 00f9-00fc

Ok, great. None of those quirks are very interesting per se (they're all 
in the old legacy region), but that 0xf9-0xfc one is interesting if only 
because it points out that I should be more careful about the mask/base 
logic.

That quirk is actually set up in a very special way, where it ignores 
address line #1, and devres J actually covers two PIO ports: 0xf9 and 0xfb 
(but not the one between). Odd, but it's documented hardware behaviour.

So the 0xf9-0xfc thing is strictly not right, and I'll modify my code a 
bit (probably to mark 0xf8-0xfb instead, which will be what we'd want to 
do for anything in the non-legacy region).

> Machine is a Compaq Armada M700; /proc/ioports & lspci output are attached.

Thanks, that lspci output was what I needed to verify the mask details.

The printouts look good. I wish somebody had a PIIX with a MMIO quirk just 
to verify that I got that case right too, but it's pretty unlikely that is 
ever used in practice.

		Linus
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