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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:05 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for testers: Apple ATA DMA
Message-ID:  <200809111651.05462.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <48C9642A.5020801@freebsd.org>
References:  <48C69864.3010208@freebsd.org> <200809111304.48753.jhb@freebsd.org> <48C9642A.5020801@freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 11 September 2008 02:32:10 pm Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> > So when I did the MSI stuff I had assumed (apparently incorrectly), that 
PCI 
> > functions would only every have 1 non-MSI interrupt (since there is only a 
> > single INTLINE config register).  Is the extra interrupt coming from OF?  
If 
> > so, does OF support MSI at all?  You could always change the OF PCI bus 
> > driver to not do MSI and use rid 1 IRQ for the OF indicated IRQ for a PCI 
> > device by having custom alloc_resource/setup_intr/teardown_intr methods.
> 
>   Int lines on the Mac go directly into the OpenPIC, allowing as many 
> int sources as desired. The intline config register isn't really used, 
> though there is code that attempts to read the OFW interrupt properties 
> and then program that register to avoid messing with the PCI common 
> code. Unfortunately, some Mac devices ignore writes to that register :( 
> The G5 does support MSI.
> 
>   I had sent a possible solution to Nathan (Nathan: check your junk :) 
> that in pci_setup_intr did something like:
> 
>    if (dinfo->cfg.msi.msi_addr > 0) {
>      ...
>    } else if (dinfo->cfg.msi.msix_alloc > 0) {
>      ...
>    } else {
> #ifndef __powerpc__
>      KASSERT("No MSI or MSI-X interrupts allocated")
> #endif
>    }
> 
>   There's probably a bunch of other places that need fixing but this was 
> an obvious one.

OFW should already have its own PCI bus driver, so I'd rather you give it its 
own bus_setup_intr() method that DTRT for these interrupt resources (rid > 0 
and !MSI) and then calls pci_setup_intr() for the rest.  Then you don't have 
to add MD hacks to the generic PCI bus driver.

-- 
John Baldwin



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