From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
David Engraf <david.engraf@netcom.eu>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:24:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803222458.GB27130@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070802164329.GD28721@suse.de>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
...
> It wasn't just MIPS. IBM has a very popular blade system that has huge
> issues with this, and I think there are some other IBM systems based on
> the same BIOS that also do bad things if we don't grab the USB
> controller away from the BIOS as soon as possible (nasty interrupt and
> other messes happen...)
PA-RISC has the same problem with USB. We can't reprogram the IOMMU
windows at boot time unless the USB controller is forcefully stopped
from doing DMA. "BIOS" leaves the USB DMA enabled to avoid loosing
activity between polls for input.
PA-RISC solves this by calling back into the "BIOS" (aka PDC) to cleanly stop
all possible DMA devices. Other arches probably don't have this luxury.
grant
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 8:31 David Engraf
2007-07-31 15:04 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
[not found] ` <46B03078.5040305@netcom.eu>
2007-08-01 7:21 ` David Engraf
2007-08-01 20:23 ` Greg KH
2007-08-02 7:07 ` David Engraf
2007-08-01 14:40 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-02 7:14 ` David Engraf
2007-08-02 14:32 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-02 16:43 ` Greg KH
2007-08-03 6:52 ` David Engraf
2007-08-03 15:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-07 8:44 ` David Engraf
2007-08-07 14:37 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 22:24 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
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