From 061b90507db3196a094f3dd88e183552e22f3ff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Huber Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:58:23 +0200 Subject: device/pci: Enable full 16-bit VGA port i/o decoding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit So, the PCI to PCI bridge specification had a pitfall for us: Originally, when decoding i/o ports for legacy VGA cycles, bridges should only consider the 10 least significant bits of the port address. This means all VGA registers were aliased every 1024 ports! e.g. 0x3b0 was also decoded as 0x7b0, 0xbb0 etc. However, it seems, we never reserved the aliased ports, resulting in silent conflicts we preallocated resources. We neither use much external VGA nor many i/o ports these days, so nobody noticed. To avoid this mess, a bridge control bit (VGA16) was introduced in 2003 to enable decoding of 16-bit port addresses. As older systems seem rather safe and well tested, and newer systems should support this bit, we'll use it if possible and only warn if not. With old (AGP era) hardware one will likely encounter a warning like this: found VGA at PCI: 06:00.0 A bridge on the path doesn't support 16-bit VGA decoding! This is not generally fatal, but makes unnoticed resource conflicts more likely. Change-Id: Id7a07f069dd54331df79f605c6bcda37882a602d Signed-off-by: Nico Huber Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/35516 Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki Reviewed-by: Michael Niewöhner Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) --- src/include/device/device.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'src/include/device/device.h') diff --git a/src/include/device/device.h b/src/include/device/device.h index cb37c096e4..991bd38f2f 100644 --- a/src/include/device/device.h +++ b/src/include/device/device.h @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct bus { unsigned int reset_needed : 1; unsigned int disable_relaxed_ordering : 1; unsigned int ht_link_up : 1; + unsigned int no_vga16 : 1; /* No support for 16-bit VGA decoding */ }; /* -- cgit v1.2.3