Re: FreeBSD 5.x installation hangs on Toshiba Tecra A2

Munehiro Matsuda <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello John,

With your patch applied, my Toshiba dynabook SS MX/190R now boots
without need for setting 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' in loader.conf. 

Thanks for the patch,
 Haro
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From: John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:51:12 -0400
::On Friday 20 May 2005 11:32 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
::> In message: <[email protected]>
::>
::>             John Baldwin <[email protected]> writes:
::> : On May 18, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Munehiro Matsuda wrote:
::> : > Hello Jamil,
::> : >
::> : > How about setting 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' at loader prompt or
::> : > set it in loader.conf? Toshiba laptops seems to need this.
::> : >
::> : > Hope this helps,
::> : >   Haro
::> : > =----------------------------------------------------------------------
::> : > --------
::> : >            _ _    Munehiro (haro) Matsuda
::> : >  -|- /_\  |_|_|   Internet Solution Dept., KGT Inc.
::> : >  /|\ |_|  |_|_|   2-8-8 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0022, Japan
::> : >                   Tel: +81-3-3225-0767  Fax: +81-3-3225-0740
::> : >                   Email: [email protected]
::> : >
::> : > From: "Jamil Ahmed" <[email protected]>
::> : > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:42:41 +0100
::> : >
::> : > ::Hello,
::> : > ::
::> : > ::I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 5.x on my laptop (the
::> : >
::> : > processor is
::> : >
::> : > ::Intel Centrino 1.7GHz). I have tried 5.3 and now 5.4, the load stops
::> : >
::> : > at the
::> : >
::> : > ::same place for both. FreeBSD 4.10 installs fine. I have tried the
::> : >
::> : > normal
::> : >
::> : > ::boot and also boot with ACPI disabled without luck. The following is
::> : >
::> : > the
::> : >
::> : > ::tail end of the output when booting with verbose output
::> : > ::
::> : > ::pcib0: slot 2 INTA routed to irq 10 via \_SB_.LNKA
::> : > ::found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x3582, revid=0x02
::> : > ::        bus=0, slot=2, func=0
::> : > ::        class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
::> : > ::        cmdreg=0x0007, statreg=0x0090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
::> : > ::        lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt-0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
::> : > ::        intpin=a, irq=10
::> : > ::        powerspec 1 supports D0 D1 D3 current D0
::> : > ::        map[10]: type 3, range 32, base 00000000, size 27, memory
::> : >
::> : > disabled
::> : >
::> : > ::the install just stalls at this point.
::> :
::> : So, the problem is that we turn on the memory BARs by default.  Note
::> : that the BAR has a base address of 0, so I wonder if it starts
::> : "answering" to mem access to low memory.  Note it has a range of 27
::> : bits, or 128 MB.  We could probably just move the check for a base of 0
::> : up above the pci_enable_io_modes code to do that.  Warner, what do you
::> : think?
::>
::> Sounds reasonable to me on its surface.  Wanna shoot me a patch?
::
::Index: pci.c
::===================================================================
::RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c,v
::retrieving revision 1.289
::diff -u -r1.289 pci.c
::--- pci.c	29 Apr 2005 06:22:41 -0000	1.289
::+++ pci.c	27 May 2005 19:50:04 -0000
::@@ -823,6 +823,13 @@
:: 	}
:: 
:: 	/*
::+	 * If base is 0, then we have problems.  It is best to ignore
::+	 * such entires for the moment.  These will be allocated later if
::+	 * the driver specifically requests them.
::+	 */
::+	if (base == 0)
::+		return 1;
::+	/*
:: 	 * This code theoretically does the right thing, but has
:: 	 * undesirable side effects in some cases where peripherals
:: 	 * respond oddly to having these bits enabled.  Let the user
::@@ -847,13 +854,6 @@
:: 		if (type == SYS_RES_MEMORY && !pci_memen(pcib, b, s, f))
:: 			return (1);
:: 	}
::-	/*
::-	 * If base is 0, then we have problems.  It is best to ignore
::-	 * such entires for the moment.  These will be allocated later if
::-	 * the driver specifically requests them.
::-	 */
::-	if (base == 0)
::-		return 1;
:: 
:: 	start = base;
:: 	end = base + (1 << ln2size) - 1;
::
::-- 
::John Baldwin <[email protected]>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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