John Baldwin <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:39:24 pm Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have (a long-lasting) problem to get hpet attached to a Tyan S3992-E
>> MB. My last known working kernel is 7.1-PRERELEASE Sep 2 2008" , I
>> rarely cared about this board for a while...
>> 
>> At that time the dmesg said :
>> 
>> 
>>   acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
>>   on acpi0
>>   Timecounter "HPET" frequency 25000000 Hz quality 900
>> 
>> now it says (debug.acpi.hpet_test="1", debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_TIMER",
>> debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS" enabled) :
>> 
>>   hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed03fff on
>>   acpi0
>>   hpet0: vendor 0xffff, rev 0xff, 232831Hz 64bit, 32 timers, legacy route
>>   hpet0:  t0: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t1: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t2: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t3: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t4: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t5: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t6: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t7: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t8: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t9: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t10: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t11: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t12: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t13: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t14: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t15: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t16: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t17: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t18: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t19: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t20: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t21: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t22: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t23: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t24: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t25: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t26: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t27: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t28: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t29: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t30: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0:  t31: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>>   hpet0: 0.000000000: 4294967295 ... 4294967295 = 0
>>   hpet0: time per call: 0 ns
>>   hpet0: HPET never increments, disabling
>>   device_attach: hpet0 attach returned 6
>> 
>> 
>> Some things strike me :
>> 
>>   'vendor 0xffff, rev 0xf' and '4294967295 (== 0xffffffff)' as well
>>     as 232831Hz
>> 
>>   the change in iomem range :
>> 
>>       OK : iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
>>       KO : iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed03fff
>>                                   ^^^^
>> 
>> I can provide full dmesg and/or other extra needed info.
>
> Arno sent me his acpidump which includes this:
>
>                 Device (HPET)
>                 {
>                     Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103"))
>                     Name (_UID, 0x34)
>                     Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
>                     {
>                         Return (0x0F)
>                     }
>
>                     Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
>                     {
>                         Return (ResourceTemplate ()
>                         {
>                             Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
>                                 0xFED00000,         // Address Base
>                                 0x00004000,         // Address Length
>                                 )
>                         })
>                     }
>                 }
>
> So it does look like we are doing what the DSDT tells us in terms
> of the memory address.

yop. That said, I made yet another copy-paste error: the last known
working kernel is 8.0-CURRENT Mar  1 2009 and the hpet says :

  acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
  on acpi0
  Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 

[only the frequency differs, the memory range indeed then was reported as
0x400 and not 0x4000 ]

> Arno, are there any BIOS options that mention the HPET or have you updated 
> your BIOS since you booted the 7.1 kernel?

yes .. I now use BIOS 1.06 released 06/09/09.
Can I somehow 'overide' the bios and force the driver to use 0X400 as
'Address Length' in order to test if that makes the driver attach again?

Thanx, Arno
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"

Reply via email to