ppc fails to attach to puc on 9.1-STABLE, 7.4-STABLE works

Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com
Tue Jan 15 07:13:17 UTC 2013


On Mon, 14-Jan-2013 at 21:02:58 +0100, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:40:52 am Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > [Retrying here, maybe anyone can help...}
> > 
> > I want my printer port back on 9.1 ;-(
> > 
> > I have this card:
> > 
> > puc0 at pci0:4:1:0:        class=0x078000 card=0x00121000 chip=0x98359710 
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'NetMos Technology'
> >     device     = 'PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller'
> >     class      = simple comms
> > 
> > It attached and worked under 7.4-STABLE (as long as I disabled
> > the interrupt using hint.ppc.0.irq=""):
> > 
> > puc0: <NetMos NM9835 Dual UART and 1284 Printer port> port 
> 0xdf00-0xdf07,0xde00-0xde07,0xdd00-0xdd07
> > ,0xdc00-0xdc07,0xdb00-0xdb07,0xda00-0xda0f irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci4
> > puc0: [FILTER]
> > uart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> on puc0
> > uart0: [FILTER]
> > uart1: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> on puc0
> > uart1: [FILTER]
> > ppc0: <Parallel port> on puc0
> > ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in ECP+EPP mode (EPP 1.9)
> > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> > lpt0: Polled port
> > 
> > 
> > Under 9.1 the card does not attach the ppc anymore. The hint entries
> > 
> > hint.ppc.0.at=puc0
> > hint.ppc.0.irq=""
> > hint.ppc.0.flags=0x2F
> > 
> > get ignored and so it probes as ppc1 (failing due to the interrupt
> > problem as it was in 7.4 without hints):
> > 
> > puc0: <NetMos NM9835 Dual UART and 1284 Printer port> port 
> 0xdf00-0xdf07,0xde00-0xde07,0xdd00-0xdd07
> > ,0xdc00-0xdc07,0xdb00-0xdb07,0xda00-0xda0f irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci4
> > uart2: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> at port 1 on puc0
> > uart3: <16550 or compatible> at port 2 on puc0
> > ppc1: <Parallel port> at port 3 on puc0
> > ppc1: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > ppc1: failed to register interrupt handler: 6
> > device_attach: ppc1 attach returned 6
> > 
> > Any ideas? How do I construct the hint entries under 9.1 so that
> > 
> > 1. it does not want to use the interrupt (which made it attach under 7.4)
> > 2. it takes the flags 0x2F as it did before.
> > 
> > I have also never understood if ppc itself needs to attach to
> > the irq as well (I thought this all would be handled by puc).
> 
> Well, ppc wants to use puc's interrupt, and it should be finding puc's 
> interrupt.  Ah, I think I found the bug.  Try this patch to sys/dev/puc/puc.c:
> 
> Index: puc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- puc.c	(revision 245225)
> +++ puc.c	(working copy)
> @@ -622,7 +628,7 @@ puc_bus_setup_intr(device_t dev, device_t child, s
>  	if (cookiep == NULL || res != port->p_ires)
>  		return (EINVAL);
>  	/* We demand that serdev devices use filter_only interrupts. */
> -	if (ihand != NULL)
> +	if (port->p_type == PUC_TYPE_SERIAL && ihand != NULL)
>  		return (ENXIO);
>  	if (rman_get_device(port->p_ires) != originator)
>  		return (ENXIO);
> 
> This should let your ppc device re-use IRQ 17 from your puc device.

John, thanks a lot for looking at this. I have stumbled
over this line as well last weekend but wasn't sure if I
can go this way. I will try your patch and report later...

Thanks,

	-Andre

> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin

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