Re: Access to PCI Expansion ROMs on PPC

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:20:14AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:

quoted

Regarding the sub-thread on x86 emulation, that is totally out of scope
for this. The 'AtomBIOS' of the ATI cards, consists of multiple parts (I
may have minor errors here, ask airlied if you need more
clarification):
a) Initialization code (I think arch-specific)
b) AtomBIOS script interpreter (I think arch-specific)
c) AtomBIOS scripts (card-specific, but not arch-specific)
d) Data tables (card-specific, but not arch-specific)

The AtomBIOS parts of the various drivers need data from c+d primarily,
and provide their own script interpreter, or not using the scripts, just
the data tables.

Are you sure the X1900 Mac Edition ROM contains any ATOM data structures
though? I rather doubt it.

That's what I'm trying to ascertain actually, because it directly
impacts what work needs to be done in the drivers.

If it was me writing the ROMs in the first place (but it's not), from
what I understand of the ATOM, I'd have OpenFirmware versions of a+b,
and then could re-use c+d.

The fact that both Nvidia and ATI OF-powered cards fail when trying to
access their expansion ROMs, I'm inclined to think there is something in
accessing them that we are missing, and that the ROMs must exist (the
sata_mv one existed and was accessible).

On actually accessing the rest of the ATI X1900 card, the avivotool from
git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/radeontool.git (avivo branch) can
actually access the rest of the rest of the card registers.

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