Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured

[David Engraf <david.engraf@netcom.eu>]

You said your Intel board has also problems with the handoff.
Could you try the follwing patch, because the EHCI documentation
says that the OS must set the EHCI_USBLEGSUP_OS bit and then
wait until EHCI_USBLEGSUP_BIOS is cleared. The kernel never
uses the EHCI_USBLEGSUP_OS flag at the moment.
On my system there is no change, but maybe this patch works on
your system.

Thanks
David Engraf

linux-2.6.22.1

diff -puN drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks_orig.c drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c

--- drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks_orig.c    2007-07-10 20:56:30.000000000
+0200
+++ drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c    2007-08-07 10:38:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_disable_
                  * handoff..
                  */
                 pci_write_config_byte(pdev, offset + 3, 1);
+
+                pci_write_config_byte(pdev, offset, cap |
EHCI_USBLEGSUP_OS);
             }
 
             /* if boot firmware now owns EHCI, spin till


Alan Stern schrieb:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, David Engraf wrote:
>
>   
>> So we have hardware which has problems when we are not doing the
>> handoff, and hardware which has
>> problems when we are  doing the handoff...
>>     
>
> What hardware has problems when we do the handoff?  Your system and 
> mine experience a delay, but it doesn't break anything.
>
>   
>> What is the best way to solve the problem? Maybe a kernel parameter, a
>> config flag or an automatic
>> hardware dependent check of the system?
>> In fact it is hard to find a solution which works for both as long as
>> the hardware has this bugs.
>>     
>
> If we really need it, I say we should use a Kconfig flag.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>