Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX

[matthieu castet]

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Your logs are perfect, which makes me happy because it's the first
> time I've successfully used the byzantine ACPI debug infrastructure.
>
> > Log with parport set to auto/bidirectional in BIOS for comparison. PNPBIOS does
> > detect it in this setting, ACPI doesn't. Same with auto/EPP which I used until
> > now.
>
> I think this is a BIOS defect.
>
> When you set the port to "enabled" in the BIOS, Linux finds and uses
> the parallel port with no problem.
>
> When you set the port to "auto/bidirectional" or "auto/EPP" in the BIOS,
> the _STA methods on all the parallel devices return 0:
>
>      bus-0117 [00] bus_get_status        : Device [LPT] status [00000000]
>      bus-0117 [00] bus_get_status        : Device [EPP] status [00000000]
>      bus-0117 [00] bus_get_status        : Device [ECP] status [00000000]
>
> A zero _STA means the device is not present at all, so I think Linux
> is right to ignore the devices.
If you want you could try to run the attached program on your pc in 
"auto/bidirectional" or "auto/EPP" mode.

This program does what _STA methods do.


Matthieu
#include <sys/io.h>

#define S707 0x0370
#define INDX S707
#define DATA S707+1


int R707(int Arg0)
{
	int ret;
	outb(0x55,INDX);
	outb(0x55,INDX);
	outb(Arg0,INDX);
	ret = inb(DATA);
	outb(0xAA,INDX);
	return ret;
}
void W707(int Arg0, int Arg1)
{
	outb(0x55,INDX);
	outb(0x55,INDX);
	outb(Arg0,INDX);
	outb(Arg1, DATA);
	outb(0xAA,INDX);
}



int GSTA()
{
	int ret;
	W707 (0x07, 0x03);
	ret = R707 (0xF0);
	printf("raw %d\n", ret);
	printf("LPT %d\n", (ret & 0x7) == 0);
	printf("EPP %d\n", (ret & 0x3) == 1);
	printf("ECP %d\n", (ret & 0x2) == 2);
	return ret;
}

int main()
{
	iopl(3);
	GSTA();
	return 0;
}