Re: Writing device drivers: How to access a specific memory area?

2008-12-28 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 25-Dec-2008 at 13:57:00 +, Rui Paulo wrote:
 
 On 25 Dec 2008, at 09:53, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
 
  Hello all,
 
  I am writing a driver which needs to access memory at a
  specific location. The location depends on what the BIOS
  has configured into the host bridge. For example, my
  current machine uses an Intel 975X chipset and the memory
  location I am interested in has been set to 0xFED14000 and
  is 16KB in size (this is MCHBAR of the 975X memory hub).
 
 You probably just need to do something like:
 
 rid = PCI_BAR(number);
 res = bus_alloc_resource_any(dev, SYS_RES_MEMORY, rid, RF_ACTIVE);

The problem was, that this memory belongs to acpi0
so I couldn't read it from my driver which has no
resources assigned to it. But, I found a way, see below...

 
 And then,
 bus_read_4(res, offset from specified PCI BAR);
 
 
 
  I have no idea how to access this space from my driver.
  I have played around with bus_alloc_resource() but this
  only gives me back NULL.
 
  However, a devinfo -r gives me:
 
  nexus0
   npx0
   acpi0
   Interrupt request lines:
   9
   I/O ports:
   0x10-0x1f
  ...
   0x800-0x87f
   I/O memory addresses:
   0x0-0x9
   0xc-0xd
   0xe-0xf
   0x10-0x7fff
   0xf000-0xf3ff
   0xfec0-0xfec00fff
   0xfed13000-0xfed19fff  ---
   0xfed1c000-0xfed1
   0xfed2-0xfed3
   0xfed5-0xfed8
   0xfee0-0xfee00fff
   0xffb0-0xffbf
   0xfff0-0x
 cpu0
  ...
 
  The line marked with --- shows the range which includes
  the location I am interested in. It is probably assigned
  to the acpi0 device.
 
  How do I proceed from this? Do I have to hack around in
  the ACPI-Code? I don't hope so ;-)
 
 You'll probably need to create a fake ACPI child driver to access it.
 
 
 Create your identify routine with something like:
 
 static void mydriver_identify(driver_t *driver, device_t parent)
 {
   if (device_find_child(parent, mydriver, -1) == NULL 
   mydriver_match(parent))
   device_add_child(parent, mydriver, -1);
 }
 
 mydriver_match() should check if you were given the acpi0 device.

Found something easier: I just do a bus_set_resource() followed
by bus_alloc_resource_any(), access my host bridge registers,
and free things with bus_release_resource() followed by
bus_delete_resource().

 
 
 
 
  I only need access to this memory location during the
  probe of my driver to read some configuration data.
 
 Is this pci configuration space ? If so, pci_read_config (man 9 pci)  

Unfortunately not. As I wrote, it is a 16k memory window
where the 975x maps a part of its config registers. The
address of this window can be read by pci_read_config( dev, 0x44, 4 ).
Then you can access the bridge's cXdrcY registers through
this memory window which I needed to determine the
machines RAM layout.

Thanks anyway for your help,

-Andre
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Re: Writing device drivers: How to access a specific memory area?

2008-12-25 Thread Rui Paulo


On 25 Dec 2008, at 09:53, Andre Albsmeier wrote:


Hello all,

I am writing a driver which needs to access memory at a
specific location. The location depends on what the BIOS
has configured into the host bridge. For example, my
current machine uses an Intel 975X chipset and the memory
location I am interested in has been set to 0xFED14000 and
is 16KB in size (this is MCHBAR of the 975X memory hub).


You probably just need to do something like:

rid = PCI_BAR(number);
res = bus_alloc_resource_any(dev, SYS_RES_MEMORY, rid, RF_ACTIVE);

And then,
bus_read_4(res, offset from specified PCI BAR);




I have no idea how to access this space from my driver.
I have played around with bus_alloc_resource() but this
only gives me back NULL.

However, a devinfo -r gives me:

nexus0
 npx0
 acpi0
 Interrupt request lines:
 9
 I/O ports:
 0x10-0x1f
...
 0x800-0x87f
 I/O memory addresses:
 0x0-0x9
 0xc-0xd
 0xe-0xf
 0x10-0x7fff
 0xf000-0xf3ff
 0xfec0-0xfec00fff
 0xfed13000-0xfed19fff  ---
 0xfed1c000-0xfed1
 0xfed2-0xfed3
 0xfed5-0xfed8
 0xfee0-0xfee00fff
 0xffb0-0xffbf
 0xfff0-0x
   cpu0
...

The line marked with --- shows the range which includes
the location I am interested in. It is probably assigned
to the acpi0 device.

How do I proceed from this? Do I have to hack around in
the ACPI-Code? I don't hope so ;-)


You'll probably need to create a fake ACPI child driver to access it.


Create your identify routine with something like:

static void mydriver_identify(driver_t *driver, device_t parent)
{
if (device_find_child(parent, mydriver, -1) == NULL 
mydriver_match(parent))
device_add_child(parent, mydriver, -1);
}

mydriver_match() should check if you were given the acpi0 device.





I only need access to this memory location during the
probe of my driver to read some configuration data.


Is this pci configuration space ? If so, pci_read_config (man 9 pci)  
should be just what you need.


Regards,
--
Rui Paulo

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