Hi.
I've been reading through the PCI spec and the RTL for the OGD1 for most
of the day, but there are still some major things that I don't quite
understand. It would be great if someone could help me out here.
I'm trying to understand where the different aprts of the hardware will
appear in the PC address space. We have these things that I expect to
be able to see; An option ROM, VGA IO Registers, VGA Memory, OGD
Registers and OGD Memory.
For OGD1 we are implementing a "VGA Compatable Controller" (that's what
we're telling the PCI Configuration space). This gives us a Class of
0x03, 0x00, 0x00.
In Appendix G of the PCI LB 3.0 spec (pci_lb3.0-2-6-04.pdf) it says that
a "Legacy Device" can claim those IO ports without having to setup a
BAR. This seems to be how things work in our RTL, VGA IO addresses
0x3B0-0x3DF are decoded.
At first I thought that this appendix meant that the VGA memory region
between 0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF should also be decoded without adding a BAR,
but I'm now not sure.
The ROM address is set by the Expansion ROM field of the Config space,
so that doesn't need an explicit BAR either. The BIOS will copy this
from into memory at 0xC0000 during the boot process (I'm assuming PCI
2.1 behavior).
So this leaves us with two BAR's in the RTL. The "small" one is 256
KBytes in size and is the OGD Registers. The fact that it's 16 times
too big doesn't matter.
The second BAR is "raw" access to our memory. This is 256 MBytes as I'd
expect.
So I'm not sure who (if anyone) is decoding the memory range 0xA0000 -
0xBFFFF? I would have thought that we would be doing that, but I can't
see anything to indicate that we are. Previous posts have stated that
the HQ will get to see these, but I don't see how at the moment.
MM
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