Re: PCI device function not being enumerated [Was: PCMCIA not working on Panasonic Toughbook CF-29]

[Michael .]

Have just had confirmation that the mmc_ricoh_mmc change works and
both PCMCIA slots now work as intended on Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Mk
4 and 5.

Thank you to all who have made suggestions for this, your dedication
to Linux is amazing and your help with this is appreciated.

Stay safe.
Michael.

On 28/07/2020, Michael . <keltoiboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have just compiled and uploaded a kernel to test for this issue,
> members of the Toughbook community have been provided with the link,
> though a forum discussion, to download the kernel and test it.
> Hopefully we will get positive results and can confirm the
> MMC_RICOH_MMC flag is the culprit.
> Regards.
> Stay safe.
> Michael.
>
> On 27/02/2020, bluerocksaddles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <bluerocksaddles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Somewhere in these messages is a clue....in that SD reader was involved.
>>
>> MK 4 and 5 have SD whilst MK 1, 2 and three do not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2020-02-25 22:10, Michael . wrote:
>>>> Someone with access to real hardware could
>>>> easily experiment with changing that magic value and seeing if it
>>>> changes which function is disabled.
>>>
>>> One of our members has offered to supply a machine to a dev that can
>>> use it to test any theory.
>>>
>>> It is nearly beyond the scope of the majority of us to do much more
>>> than just testing. We appreciate all the effort the devs put in and
>>> are willing to help in anyway we can but we aren't kernel devs.
>>>
>>> I, personally, use Debian. Others use Debian based distros such as MX
>>> and Mint. We have been able to test many different distros such as
>>> those listed in other comments but don't have the skills or expertise
>>> to do much more. It is our hope that this discussion and subsequent
>>> effort may enable others who prefer distros other than Debian based
>>> distros can use a CF-29 (and possibly earlier) Toughbook with the
>>> distro of their choice without having to rebuild a kernel so they can
>>> use hardware that worked back in 2010. To do this the fix needs to be
>>> at the kernel dev level not a local enthusiast level because while I
>>> can rebuild a Debian kernel I can't rebuild a Fedora or Arch or
>>> Slackware kernel.
>>>
>>> I did a search about this issue before I made initial contact late
>>> last year and the issue was discovered on more than Toughbooks and
>>> posted about on various sites not long after distros moved from
>>> 2.6.32. It seems back then people just got new machines that didn't
>>> have a 2nd slot so the search for an answer stopped. Us Toughbook
>>> users are a loyal group we use our machines because they are exactly
>>> what we need and they take alot of "punishment" taht other machines
>>> simply cannot handle. Our machines are used rather than recycled or
>>> worse still just left to sit in waste management facilities in a
>>> country that the western world dumps its rubbish in, we are Linux and
>>> Toughbook enthusiasts and hope to be able to keep our machines running
>>> for many years to come with all their native capabilities working as
>>> they were designed to but using a modern Linux instead of Windows XP
>>> or Windows 7. (that wasn't a pep talk, its just an explanation of why
>>> we are passionate about this).
>>>
>>> Let us know what you need us to do, we will let you know if we are
>>> capable of it and give you any feedback you ask for. Over the weekend
>>> I will try to rebuild a Debian kernel with the relevant option
>>> disabled, provide it to my peers for testing and report back here what
>>> the outcome is.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for all your time and effort, it is truly appreciated.
>>> Cheers.
>>> Michael.
>>>
>>> On 26/02/2020, Philip Langdale <philipl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:51:05 -0500
>>>> Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 09:12:48PM -0600, Trevor Jacobs wrote:
>>>>> > That's correct, I tested a bunch of the old distros including
>>>>> > slackware, and 2.6.32 is where the problem began.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Also, the Panasonic Toughbook CF-29s effected that we tested are
>>>>> > the later marks, MK4 and MK5 for certain. The MK2 CF-29 worked just
>>>>> > fine because it has different hardware supporting the PCMCIA slots.
>>>>> > I have not tested a MK3 but suspect it would work ok as it also
>>>>> > uses the older hardware.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks for your help guys!
>>>>> > Trevor
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> Right, the distros probably all enabled MMC_RICOH_MMC earlier than
>>>>> upstream. Can you test a custom kernel based off your distro kernel
>>>>> but just disabling that config option? That's probably the easiest
>>>>> fix
>>>>> currently, even though not ideal. Perhaps there should be a command
>>>>> line option to disable specific pci quirks to make this easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> An ideal fix is I feel hard, given this quirk is based on
>>>>> undocumented
>>>>> config registers -- it worked on Dell machines (that's where the
>>>>> original authors seem to have gotten their info from), perhaps they
>>>>> had only one Cardbus slot, but the code ends up disabling your second
>>>>> Cardbus slot instead of disabling the MMC controller.
>>>>
>>>> Keeping in mind that this was 12+ years ago, you can at least still
>>>> read the original discussion in the archives. My original Dell laptop
>>>> (XPS m1330) had no cardbus slots at all, and used the r5c832
>>>> controller. There was a subsequent change that I was not involved with
>>>> which added support for the rl5c476, which is the problematic device
>>>> in
>>>> this thread.
>>>>
>>>> As a hypothesis, based on the observed behaviour, the quirk (keeping
>>>> in
>>>> mind that these are magic configuration register values that are not
>>>> documented) probably disabled function 1, regardless of what it is,
>>>> and
>>>> the original example that motivated adding the rl5c476 quirk probably
>>>> had one cardbus slot and the card reader functions were all moved up
>>>> one, or something along those lines.
>>>>
>>>> Truly making this smart would then involve having the code enumerate
>>>> the pci functions and identify the one that is the unwanted mmc
>>>> controller, based on function ID or class or whatever, and then
>>>> disabling that (assuming the magic can be reverse engineered: eg, the
>>>> current magic ORs the disable flag with 0x02 - chances are, that's the
>>>> index of the function: 0x01 would be the 0th function, 0x04 would be
>>>> the 2nd function, etc). Someone with access to real hardware could
>>>> easily experiment with changing that magic value and seeing if it
>>>> changes which function is disabled.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck.
>>>>
>>>> --phil
>>>>
>>
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