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Date:      Mon, 8 May 2000 14:42:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "John H. Baldwin" <jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-new-bus@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org, n_hibma@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha USB difficulties...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005081426540.31869-100000@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200005081451.KAA03253@server.baldwin.cx>

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On Mon, 8 May 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Sat, 6 May 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > Well, I know this is rather a long shot, but I have a test
> > machine that can be beat on for a week to try to get some Alpha
> > stuff nailed down, and one of the things I wanted to test was
> > USB.  The machine in question is a brand new Alphastation XP900.
> > SRM doesn't support USB at the moment, but I figured that our
> > support should function at least.  Here's what I get when I boot
> > the system up:
> > 
> > FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Fri May  5 22:54:02 EDT 2000
> >     jhb@doberman.cslab.vt.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/DOBERMAN
> > ST6600
> > COMPAQ AlphaStation XP900 466 MHz, 462MHz
> > 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> > CPU: EV6 (21264) major=8 minor=4 extensions=0x303<BWX,FIX,MVI,PRECISE>
> > OSF PAL rev: 0x100360002013e
> > ....
> > pcib0: <21271 PCI host bus adapter> on tsunami0
> > pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> > ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0x20d0000-0x20d0fff irq 234 at device 1.0 on
> pci0
> > ohci0: could not allocate irq
> > device_probe_and_attach: ohci0 attach returned 12
> > 
> > Thus, it seems to be the classic problem that is solved on PC
> > systems by toggling the PnP OS support in the BIOS.  Mike
> > Smith said that we don't currently know how to allocate an IRQ
> > to a device on the Alpha, but I thought I'd run this by you since
> > I do have access to a test machine that can be beat up for a week.
> 
> The USB hardware on this platform interrupts via the ISA pic. SRM
> represents this as an interrupt pin of 0xe0 + isa irq no. Unfortunately I
> have not put in support in the alpha pci code to recognise this so the
> interrupt allocation fails. The place to add this support is probably
> pci_alloc_resource() in sys/alpha/pci/pcibus.c.

Well, I have a patch that does this at least somewhat.  It is available at
www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.usb.patch.  It assumes that all Alpha's
use the range 0xe0 - 0xef for ISA IRQ's, or rather, that if a set of IRQ's
fall in that range on an Alpha, then they are really hints for ISA
IRQ's.  However, it seems that although I can now get this far:

ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0x20d0000-0x20d0fff
irq 234 at device 1.0 on pci0
ohci0: interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 10
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub1: ALCOR STRONG MAN KBD HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2
uhub1: 3 ports with 2 removable, bus powered
ukbd0: ALCOR STRONG MAN KBD HUB, rev 1.00/1.01, addr 3, iclass 3/1
kbd1 at ukbd0
ums0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Mouse, rev 1.00/1.10, addr 4, iclass 3/1
ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.

The interrupts don't seem to be delivered properly.  Thus, I can't get the
keyboard to work, usbd takes a while (several seconds) to start, usbdevs
also runs with delays, and no kernel messages are generated when I
add/delete items to the USB tree.  Any ideas, suggetions, etc. would be
greatly appreciated.  I lose access to this machine on Friday, so.... :)

> -- 
> Doug Rabson                             Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.                  Phone: +44 20 8442 9037

John Baldwin
jhb@FreeBSD.org




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