Re: No root filesystem

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:50 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 01:41:24 pm Pascal Hofstee wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > This explains k8temp.  So my earlier test patch to Christian only checked
>> > on i386 which is why it didn't find an issue before.  Try the updated
>> > patch at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pcie.patch
>> >
>> > This does PCI config reads using both methods and panics if it doesn't
>> > get the same result.
>>
>> I had to adjust the patch slightly by actually initializing edata to
>> -1 to get the kernel to actually build (WARNS was complaining about
>> possibly uninitialized variable edata). I then booted the resulting
>> kernel and got the following boot log:
>>
>> [snip earlier parts of boot log]
>> acpi0: <090607 RSDT1001> on motherboard
>> PCIe: Memory Mapped configuration base _at_ 0xe0000000
>> ioapic0: routing intpin 9 (ISA IRQ 9) to vector 48
>> acpi0: [MPSAFE]
>> acpi0: [ITHREAD]
>> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>> panic: pci_cfgread(0:24:0, 11, 1) => 0x6, 0xff
>> cpuid = 0
>>
>> According to pciconf -lv on a working kernel device 0:24:0 is the
>> following: hostb0_at_pci0:0:24:0:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000
>> chip=0x11001022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
>>     device     = '(K8) Athlon 64/Opteron HyperTransport Technology
>> Configuration'
>>     class      = bridge
>>     subclass   = HOST-PCI
>>
>> Which matches perfectly with the first previously mentioned missing
>> devices that are normally attached to pcib0.
>
> So Linux has a rather gross work-around for this (it's a hardware bug) where
> they check all the slots on bus 0, and if a device isn't found via MCFG, it
> falls back to using the old style config access.  That still doesn't explain
> the ata issue though.  Let me see if I can come up with a patch for this
> issue first, and then we can move on to the ATA one. :-(
>
> Try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pcie_mcfg_k8.patch

For what its worth, my desktop loses 4 pci devices when pcie cfgmethod
is enabled.  My X server won't start.  I'm guessing this patch will
fix it, but I'll know tomorrow.

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