[coreboot] Resource allocation

[Marc Jones]

Myles,

I think that this is going to right direction. There are a couple things that I don't understand.

Why is there a  w83627hf_pnp_ops and w83627hf_ops?  Can they be combined?

And this is why there are two dts files, pnp.dts and dts?

I
don't think each device should have io, io1, io2, etc. They only need
whatever is required to fill the entry in pnp_dev_info[].

And so there isn't a stock pnp dts entry. Each should be specific for the device (kbc, uart, etc) but generic names.

Thanks for the clarification.

Marc
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From: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
Cc: Coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:29:08 AM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Resource allocation




On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:58 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:


> That makes it clear which devices get created (all the ones mentioned in the
> dts.)  Then the SIO code can take care of special cases like devices that
> need to be set even when they're disabled.

yes, but this is *exactly* the model that people are objecting to in
the other thread. We kind of need to make up our mind here.


How about we get something working, then improve on it.  Here's my latest try.
 

>
> While I'm wishing I'd like to use pnp at W83627HF_KBC instead of pnp at 5 and have
> that just work.  I think it might not be too hard, but it's a syntax error
> now.  It would definitely reduce the chance for mistakes.

I would rather not do this.
 
OK.  It's bitten me once, but I'll be more careful. 

 
> That's right.  The problem is that there needs to be some generic way to
> pass this information to the resource code.

This is actually not even v2, it's v1. It did not work because you
have resources in that struct that don't
exist on many devices, and there are always new devices with new
resource types that break the model.


> Right now it allocates a new
> device for each of the SuperIO PNP functions, so there are dynamic devices
> for all of them.  I think that there should only be dynamic devices for
> things that get plugged in.

I am still not convinced this really matters.

I'm attaching two logs.  One is without the attached patch, the other with.  It fixes resource allocation and makes the logs much cleaner, but it doesn't make the box work correctly.  It's just hard to debug too many things at once.  I'd like to get the SuperIO working, then resource allocation, then VGA if its still broken, then HT ...

The patch won't apply for you because it depends on other code in the tree.  There's just too much to send now, and I haven't gotten organized enough to use Jordan's script yet.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Myles 
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