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authorUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>2008-03-31 20:21:49 +0000
committerUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>2008-03-31 20:21:49 +0000
commit30d789bcbd528389749339ff03474543af1d5bf1 (patch)
treeb93262aeeeda5f226da6e3e1ad122b328c7480a6 /payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c
parent2d758b8bf6077796db27d055cf7d24f77ea52c4b (diff)
downloadcoreboot-30d789bcbd528389749339ff03474543af1d5bf1.tar.xz
Fix the NVRAM access functions to work correctly for the
upper 128 bytes of NVRAM (if enabled). For most chipsets this means using I/O ports 0x72/0x73, but at least on some VIA chipsets (I tested the VIA VT8237R on actual hardware) these ports won't work and you have to use 0x74/0x75. Thus, make this a Kconfig option for now. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Acked-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@3202 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
Diffstat (limited to 'payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c')
-rw-r--r--payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c36
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c b/payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c
index 3789c09b3c..9196d80b86 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/drivers/nvram.c
@@ -42,7 +42,29 @@
#include <libpayload.h>
-#define RTC_PORT 0x70
+
+/**
+ * PCs can have either 64 (very old ones), 128, or 256 bytes of CMOS RAM.
+ *
+ * Usually you access the lower 128 CMOS bytes via I/O port 0x70/0x71.
+ * For more recent chipsets with 256 bytes, you have to access the upper
+ * 128 bytes (128-255) using two different registers, usually 0x72/0x73.
+ *
+ * On some chipsets this can be different, though. The VIA VT8237R for example
+ * only recognizes the ports 0x74/0x75 for accessing the high 128 CMOS bytes
+ * (as seems to be the case for multiple VIA chipsets).
+ *
+ * It's very chipset-specific if and how the upper 128 bytes are enabled at
+ * all, but this work should be done in coreboot anyway. Libpayload assumes
+ * that coreboot has properly enabled access to the upper 128 bytes and
+ * doesn't try to do this on its own.
+ */
+#define RTC_PORT_STANDARD 0x70
+#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_PORT_EXTENDED_VIA
+#define RTC_PORT_EXTENDED 0x74
+#else
+#define RTC_PORT_EXTENDED 0x72
+#endif
/**
* Read a byte from the specified NVRAM address.
@@ -52,8 +74,10 @@
*/
u8 nvram_read(u8 addr)
{
- outb(addr, RTC_PORT);
- return inb(RTC_PORT + 1);
+ u16 rtc_port = addr < 128 ? RTC_PORT_STANDARD : RTC_PORT_EXTENDED;
+
+ outb(addr, rtc_port);
+ return inb(rtc_port + 1);
}
/**
@@ -64,6 +88,8 @@ u8 nvram_read(u8 addr)
*/
void nvram_write(u8 val, u8 addr)
{
- outb(addr, RTC_PORT);
- outb(val, RTC_PORT + 1);
+ u16 rtc_port = addr < 128 ? RTC_PORT_STANDARD : RTC_PORT_EXTENDED;
+
+ outb(addr, rtc_port);
+ outb(val, rtc_port + 1);
}