From: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org (open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC
(32-BIT AND 64-BIT)), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] Connecting the SB600's i8259 controller rather in pasemi's pci.c than in pasemi's setup.c.
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 14:59:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701125941.906-2-chzigotzky@xenosoft.de> (raw)
Hello,
Here is the email without HTML (Sorry):
The Nemo board [1] doesn’t boot without this patch. Darren explained it really well:
Originally we initialised the PCI-e ports in setup arch, this is quite early, and it seems uses some kernel functions that were not recommended (They changed a whole lot of different platforms at the same time for the same reason)
After this we added the ISA bridge, then the kernel would init the IRQ contollers.
The patch that broke booting on the X1000 moved the pas_pci_init to a node in the machine description, where it called later in the boot sequence. Unfortunately this is after we've tried to add the i8259 contoller from the pas_init_IRQ. Since our ISA bridge can't be found until we've connected the PCI-e ports the system tries to write to registers that aren't yet mapped - result a kernel panic, but before console I/O has been initialised so it appears to be a hang. We had a similar problem when they were introducing Radix support.
My patch changes our code so that it works with the new kernel code in place. Basically I moved the code that adds the i8259 cascade to after we've scanned for the ISA bridge where I know it will work.
Hopefully this makes sense, shout out if it doesn't.
Regards
Darren
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000
Signed-off-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/pci.c | 7 +++++++
arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/setup.c | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/pci.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/pci.c
index 2df955274652..7208c325bfc5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/pci.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/pci.c
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
#define PA_PXP_CFA(bus, devfn, off) (((bus) << 20) | ((devfn) << 12) | (off))
+extern void nemo_init_IRQ(void);
+
static inline int pa_pxp_offset_valid(u8 bus, u8 devfn, int offset)
{
/* Device 0 Function 0 is special: It's config space spans function 1 as
@@ -265,6 +267,11 @@ static int __init pas_add_bridge(struct device_node *dev)
*/
isa_bridge_find_early(hose);
+ /*
+ * ISA brigde is now active, add the i8259 cascade (if needed)
+ */
+ nemo_init_IRQ();
+
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/setup.c
index d03b41336901..eec74611be46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/setup.c
@@ -214,10 +214,12 @@ static void sb600_8259_cascade(struct irq_desc *desc)
chip->irq_eoi(&desc->irq_data);
}
-static void __init nemo_init_IRQ(struct mpic *mpic)
+void nemo_init_IRQ(void)
{
struct device_node *np;
int gpio_virq;
+ struct mpic *mpic;
+
/* Connect the SB600's legacy i8259 controller */
np = of_find_node_by_path("/pxp@0,e0000000");
i8259_init(np, 0);
@@ -228,6 +230,7 @@ static void __init nemo_init_IRQ(struct mpic *mpic)
irq_set_chained_handler(gpio_virq, sb600_8259_cascade);
mpic_unmask_irq(irq_get_irq_data(gpio_virq));
+ mpic = irq_get_chip_data(gpio_virq);
irq_set_default_domain(mpic->irqhost);
}
@@ -298,8 +301,6 @@ static __init void pas_init_IRQ(void)
mpic_unmask_irq(irq_get_irq_data(nmi_virq));
}
- nemo_init_IRQ(mpic);
-
of_node_put(mpic_node);
of_node_put(root);
}
--
2.55.0.windows.1
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