Re: Problems with devices that use PCI shared memory on 2nd PCI bus (6 slot powermac)

[Bob Brose <linuxppcdev@qbjnet.com>]

Ben Wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 15:05 +0000, Bob Brose wrote:
> > Since Ben fixed the irq routing on 32 bit powermacs with changes to pci_32.c
> > and prom_parse.c I've been able to use all 6 slots with interrupt
> > driven devices however there appears to be a problem with devices that use
> > memory mapping. (this is on a S900 w/ 21052 second PCI controller)
> >
> > A couple of examples:
> > When using a 21143 tulip ethernet card on the second PCI bus and with the
> > "Use PCI shared mem for NIC registers" option turned on the driver
> > fails with incorrect status register reads. If I compile a kernel without
> > this option it works fine.
> >
> > Also, if I put a rage 128 video board in one of the slots on the
> > second bus it cannot do DRM. If I turn DRM off it works ok or if I move the
> > card to the first bus it works fine with DRM.
> 
> In lspci -vv, do you see the BusMaster bit enabled on the PCI-2-PCI
> bridge ?
> 
> Ben.

Yes. Here is the lspci -vv for the 21052:

00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
        Memory behind bridge: 80800000-808fffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR+
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-


Bob