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author | Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it> | 2020-11-20 14:11:25 +0300 |
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committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2020-11-23 19:59:49 +0300 |
commit | 390029c27ea74099a7f56f7ae502d11953fa1187 (patch) | |
tree | c14da597d50ba537ddd95a83e22677c3451855c8 /Documentation/firmware-guide | |
parent | a8b6cfdf978602dbbb0b9b19e74f25af7a8ca389 (diff) | |
download | linux-390029c27ea74099a7f56f7ae502d11953fa1187.tar.xz |
Documentation: ACPI: enumeration: add PCI hierarchy representation
For "fixed" PCI devices, such as chips directly soldered
on the main board (ethernet, Wi-Fi, serial ports, etc.),
it is possible to find an ACPI enumeration.
This allows to add useful properties to these devices.
Just for an example: the property "gpio-line-names" can be
added to the pins of a GPIO expander on the PCI bus.
In order to find the ACPI name of a PCI device, it's necessary
to disassemble the BIOS ACPI tables (in particular the DSDT)
and also to analyze the PCI bus topology of the board.
This patch, with a practical example, show how to do this.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst index c13fee8b02ba..9f0d5c854fa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst @@ -461,3 +461,157 @@ Otherwise, the _DSD itself is regarded as invalid and therefore the "compatible" property returned by it is meaningless. Refer to :doc:`DSD-properties-rules` for more information. + +PCI hierarchy representation +============================ + +Sometimes could be useful to enumerate a PCI device, knowing its position on the +PCI bus. + +For example, some systems use PCI devices soldered directly on the mother board, +in a fixed position (ethernet, Wi-Fi, serial ports, etc.). In this conditions it +is possible to refer to these PCI devices knowing their position on the PCI bus +topology. + +To identify a PCI device, a complete hierarchical description is required, from +the chipset root port to the final device, through all the intermediate +bridges/switches of the board. + +For example, let us assume to have a system with a PCIe serial port, an +Exar XR17V3521, soldered on the main board. This UART chip also includes +16 GPIOs and we want to add the property ``gpio-line-names`` [1] to these pins. +In this case, the ``lspci`` output for this component is:: + + 07:00.0 Serial controller: Exar Corp. XR17V3521 Dual PCIe UART (rev 03) + +The complete ``lspci`` output (manually reduced in length) is:: + + 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp... Host Bridge (rev 0d) + ... + 00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp... PCI Express Port A #1 (rev fd) + 00:13.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp... PCI Express Port A #2 (rev fd) + 00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp... PCI Express Port A #3 (rev fd) + 00:14.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp... PCI Express Port B #1 (rev fd) + 00:14.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp... PCI Express Port B #2 (rev fd) + ... + 05:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Device 2404 (rev 05) + 06:01.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Device 2404 (rev 05) + 06:02.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Device 2404 (rev 05) + 06:03.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Device 2404 (rev 05) + 07:00.0 Serial controller: Exar Corp. XR17V3521 Dual PCIe UART (rev 03) <-- Exar + ... + +The bus topology is:: + + -[0000:00]-+-00.0 + ... + +-13.0-[01]----00.0 + +-13.1-[02]----00.0 + +-13.2-[03]-- + +-14.0-[04]----00.0 + +-14.1-[05-09]----00.0-[06-09]--+-01.0-[07]----00.0 <-- Exar + | +-02.0-[08]----00.0 + | \-03.0-[09]-- + ... + \-1f.1 + +To describe this Exar device on the PCI bus, we must start from the ACPI name +of the chipset bridge (also called "root port") with address:: + + Bus: 0 - Device: 14 - Function: 1 + +To find this information is necessary disassemble the BIOS ACPI tables, in +particular the DSDT (see also [2]):: + + mkdir ~/tables/ + cd ~/tables/ + acpidump > acpidump + acpixtract -a acpidump + iasl -e ssdt?.* -d dsdt.dat + +Now, in the dsdt.dsl, we have to search the device whose address is related to +0x14 (device) and 0x01 (function). In this case we can find the following +device:: + + Scope (_SB.PCI0) + { + ... other definitions follow ... + Device (RP02) + { + Method (_ADR, 0, NotSerialized) // _ADR: Address + { + If ((RPA2 != Zero)) + { + Return (RPA2) /* \RPA2 */ + } + Else + { + Return (0x00140001) + } + } + ... other definitions follow ... + +and the _ADR method [3] returns exactly the device/function couple that +we are looking for. With this information and analyzing the above ``lspci`` +output (both the devices list and the devices tree), we can write the following +ACPI description for the Exar PCIe UART, also adding the list of its GPIO line +names:: + + Scope (_SB.PCI0.RP02) + { + Device (BRG1) //Bridge + { + Name (_ADR, 0x0000) + + Device (BRG2) //Bridge + { + Name (_ADR, 0x00010000) + + Device (EXAR) + { + Name (_ADR, 0x0000) + + Name (_DSD, Package () + { + ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"), + Package () + { + Package () + { + "gpio-line-names", + Package () + { + "mode_232", + "mode_422", + "mode_485", + "misc_1", + "misc_2", + "misc_3", + "", + "", + "aux_1", + "aux_2", + "aux_3", + } + } + } + }) + } + } + } + } + +The location "_SB.PCI0.RP02" is obtained by the above investigation in the +dsdt.dsl table, whereas the device names "BRG1", "BRG2" and "EXAR" are +created analyzing the position of the Exar UART in the PCI bus topology. + +References +========== + +[1] Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst + +[2] Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/initrd_table_override.rst + +[3] ACPI Specifications, Version 6.3 - Paragraph 6.1.1 _ADR Address) + https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_3_May16.pdf, + referenced 2020-11-18 |