Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre2: pcmcia 3c59x doesn't work

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 14:46:10 EDT

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    In article <39C70CB0.AEB0DF8E@sgi.com>, Dag Bakke <dagb@sgi.com> wrote:
    >Tigran Aivazian wrote:
    >>
    >> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Derek Wildstar wrote:
    >>
    >> > On 18 Sep 2000, Alex Romosan wrote:
    >> >
    >> > I get the same thing with a Xircon realport 10/100/modem card. Works
    >> > great in test9-pre1 and test8.
    >> >
    >> > -dwild
    >> >
    >>
    >> did you try this patch?
    >>
    >> --- linux/drivers/pci/pci.c Mon Sep 18 12:35:11 2000
    >> +++ work/drivers/pci/pci.c Mon Sep 18 13:12:20 2000
    >> @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
    >> * We need to blast all three values with a single write.
    >> */
    >> pci_write_config_dword(dev, PCI_PRIMARY_BUS, buses);
    >> - if (!is_cardbus) {
    >> + if (is_cardbus) {
    >> /* Now we can scan all subordinate buses... */
    >> max = pci_do_scan_bus(child);
    >> } else {
    >>
    >
    >
    >I did.
    >Didn't work for me.
    >My Xircom is still being detected. But PCI resource allocation still fails.
    >I'll be happy to set up a remote debug session for anyone interested...

    There seem to be two potential problems with the new code. How about
    this instead:

    First off, it's doing the subordinate bus write with a byte write, which
    is, as far as I can tell, not legal. When you update the bus
    information, you have to update it all at the same time.

    Does it help if you change drivers/pci/pci.c pci_scan_bridge(), the line
    that says

            pci_write_config_byte(dev, PCI_SUBORDINATE_BUS, max);

    and you replace that with

            buses = (buses & 0xff00ffff) | ((unsigned int)(child->subordinate) << 16);
            pci_write_config_dword(dev, PCI_PRIMARY_BUS, buses);

    instead.

    Second, if the cardbus bridge is already allocated by the BIOS, the "max
    bus" logic looks bogus. It looks like

            if (!is_cardbus) {
                    unsigned int cmax = pci_do_scan_bus(child);
                    if (cmax > max) max = cmax;
            }

    and it _should_ probably have something like

            if (!is_cardbus) {
                    .. same logic ..
            } else {
                    unsigned int cmax = child->subordinate + 3;
                    if (cmax > max) max = cmax;
            }

    because otherwise we'd completely ignore the cardbus "max" values as far
    as I can tell, and if the machine has another bus it might be given the
    same bus value as the already-configured cardbus bridge.

    Do the above two fixes help? If not, I suspect that we're better off
    just reverting the new PCI bus allocation until it's fixed.

                            Linus
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