2.6.13 PowerBook boot hang (was Re: 2.6.13-rc7-git2 crashes on iBook)

Sean Neakums sneakums at zork.net
Mon Aug 29 20:56:15 EST 2005


Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de> writes:

> The last change to drivers/pci/setup-res.c (Ignore disabled ROM resources
> at setup) is breaking radeonfb on iBook G3 (with Radeon Mobility M6 LY).
> It crashes in pci_map_rom when called from radeonfb_map_ROM.  This is
> probably a dormant bug that was just uncovered by the change.

2.6.13 hangs on boot on my PowerBook 5.4, reverting the disabled ROM
patch (appended for confirmation) fixes it.  2.6.13-rc7 was fine.


diff-tree 755528c860b05fcecda1c88a2bdaffcb50760a7f (from 26aad69e3dd854abe9028ca873fb40b410a39dd7)
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at g5.osdl.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 26 10:49:22 2005 -0700

    Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup
    
    Writing even a disabled value seems to mess up some matrox graphics
    cards.  It may be a card-related issue, but we may also be writing
    reserved low bits in the result.
    
    This was a fall-out of switching x86 over to the generic PCI resource
    allocation code, and needs more debugging.  In particular, the old x86
    code defaulted to not doing any resource allocations at all for ROM
    resources.
    
    In the meantime, this has been reported to make X happier by Helge
    Hafting <helgehaf at aitel.hist.no>.
    
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/pci/setup-res.c b/drivers/pci/setup-res.c
--- a/drivers/pci/setup-res.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/setup-res.c
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ pci_update_resource(struct pci_dev *dev,
 	if (resno < 6) {
 		reg = PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0 + 4 * resno;
 	} else if (resno == PCI_ROM_RESOURCE) {
-		new |= res->flags & IORESOURCE_ROM_ENABLE;
+		if (!(res->flags & IORESOURCE_ROM_ENABLE))
+			return;
+		new |= PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
 		reg = dev->rom_base_reg;
 	} else {
 		/* Hmm, non-standard resource. */



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