On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Antoine Delvaux wrote:
> > > >> # insmod eata.o io_port=0x1400
> > > > ^^^^^^
> > > > Where are you getting this value from? I'm sure it is wrong... Have
> > > > a look at the boot messages of your kernel, and also send along the
> > > > output of 'lspci -vv'.
> > >
> > > I'm getting this addresse from lspci and from previous tries with
> > > modprobe eata.o (which gives exactly the same results as insmod BTW)
> > > Here is the lspci -vv output regarding this card :
> > >
> > > 00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: Distributed Processing Technology
> > > SmartCache/Raid I-IV Controller (rev 02)
> > > 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 (1000ns min, 2000ns max), cache line size 08
> > > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 25
> > > BIST result: 00
> > > Region 0: I/O ports at 1400 [disabled] [size=32]
> > > Expansion ROM at 80908000 [disabled] [size=32K]
> > >
> > > >> # tail /var/log/syslog Jun 4 13:52:38 brocoli kernel: IN from bad
> > > >> port 1408 at d005392c
> > > >
> > > > This message means you are trying to read from an address where no
> > > > device is listening. Either the IO port (0x1408) is wrong, or the
> > > > device isn't configured to reply to IO accesses on the PCI bus.
> > >
> > > Why could the device not be configured to reply to IO accesses on the
> > > PCI bus ?
> >
> > Because no one enabled it?
> >
> > Apparently the eata driver doesn't call pci_enable_device().
>
> No, I think it does it, as I can see from the source, but does it does it
> at the good time ? :
[...]
> The driver code is working very fine with the same card on i386 box...
> What are the differences regarding PCI bus between i386 and ppc ?
I guess the card has a PC BIOS? Then on ia32 it will be enabled during BIOS
init.
> BTW, what doean mean the 'disabled' in the lspci output, just not enabled
> ? Should the call to pci_enable_device() change this status ? :
Yes. Yes.
> > > Region 0: I/O ports at 1400 [disabled] [size=32]
> > > Expansion ROM at 80908000 [disabled] [size=32K]
Does it change after the call to pci_enable_device()?
> Also, the syslog extract :
>
> > > >> # tail /var/log/syslog Jun 4 13:52:38 brocoli kernel: IN from bad
> > > >> port 1408 at d005392c
>
> is apparantly comming from arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c When could this trap
> be reached ?
Apparently your PowerMac doesn't support PCI I/O??
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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