Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:36:17 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?R3VzdGF1IFDDqXJleiBpIFF1ZXJvbA==?= <gperez@entel.upc.edu> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem adding more than 8 network adapters Message-ID: <503E4501.6070607@entel.upc.edu> In-Reply-To: <503E2453.9040407@FreeBSD.org> References: <503C930C.3010405@entel.upc.edu> <503DE1BC.4050907@entel.upc.edu> <20120829101202.GA74970@server.rulingia.com> <201208290813.55855.jhb@freebsd.org> <503E1961.80402@FreeBSD.org> <503E1F02.6050505@entel.upc.edu> <503E2453.9040407@FreeBSD.org>
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Al 29/08/2012 16:16, En/na Andriy Gapon ha escrit: > on 29/08/2012 16:54 Gustau Pérez i Querol said the following: >> Al 29/08/2012 15:30, En/na Andriy Gapon ha escrit: >>> I wonder where the discrepancy could come from. >>> Why would VirtualBox emulate the bridge differently for different OSes? >>> And I do not see any quirks related to bus numbers for this PCI ID in either >>> Linux, FreeBSD or lspci code... >>> >>> I think that output of lspci on FreeBSD could be interesting too (it's available >>> via sysutils/pciutils port). >>> >> The output of lspci gives the same info as pciconf. I'm attaching it however. > [snip] >> 00:18.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) >> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 >> Bus: primary=01, secondary=01, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 >> !!! Unknown I/O range types e0/df >> !!! Unknown memory range types f100/f0ff >> >> 00:19.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) >> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 >> Bus: primary=02, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 >> !!! Unknown I/O range types e0/df >> !!! Unknown memory range types f100/f0ff > I think that I was wrong with regard to Linux. I see that it does extensive > bridge reconfiguring if it notices any insanity. And I'd say that VirtualBix does > create an insane config here. > I believe that primary should be 0, secondary should be 1 and 2 respectively (as > they are) and subordinate should be equal to secondary. So primary bus numbers > and subordinate bus numbers are insane here. > I am not sure how much the incorrect bus numbers actually affect FreeBSD PCI-PCI > driver as it does not seem to use primary and subordinate numbers for anything > important. > > Memory and I/O misconfiguration are most likely much more important here. > > In any case, here is a link to the broken VirtualBox code: > http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/Bus/DevPciIch9.cpp > See function ich9pciInitBridgeTopology, which sets primary bus and secondary bus > to X and subordinate bus to X+1. > > And here a link to Linux code that re-configures those bus numbers: > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.5.3/drivers/pci/probe.c#L663 > > I bet that was "bus configuration invalid, reconfiguring" message during Linux boot. I did not see that message. Anyhow I found how to fix VBox to work as it should. I think I'm closing this thread and move it to @emulation. Gustau -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prou top-posting : http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Stop top-posting : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style O O O Gustau Pérez i Querol O O O Departament d'Enginyeria Telemà tica O O O Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Edifici C3 - Despatx S101-B UPC Campus Nord UPC C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3 08034 - Barcelona
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