RE: understanding an IO question

From: "Ami Levi Waves" <ami@waves•com>
To: "'Charles Krinke'" <ckrinke@istor•com>, <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: RE: understanding an IO question
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:50:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003a01c75595$818084c0$0600000a@waves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F3F0A752CAEBE4FA7E906CC2FBFF57C06A164@MERCURY.inside.istor.com>

The way we do it:

Fisrt open a memory device:

	Handle =3D open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR);

Than map the address using:

	mmap(NULL, nAdress, PORT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, Handle, your
base address);

mmap returns a virtual pointer, pointing to your HW.

Ami

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces+ami=3Dwaves.com@ozlabs•org =
[mailto:linuxppc-
> embedded-bounces+ami=3Dwaves.com@ozlabs•org] On Behalf Of Charles =
Krinke
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:14 AM
> To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
> Subject: understanding an IO question
>=20
> I have a board using an 8541 which is based on the mpc85xx_cds bsp. It
> has one PCI device connected to the 8541, an ASIC we make that maps in
> resources for its registers at 0x8400_0000 - 0x8400_0038.
>=20
> The driver for our ASIC works in an 8241 design and I am trying to get
> its register access working in the 8541 and need a little additional
> understanding.
>=20
> I can see in cat /proc/iomem where we have memory apparently allocated
> for our registers, like this.
>=20
> cat /proc/iomem
> 80000000-9fffffff : PCI1 host bridge
>   84000000-84000038 : ichar
>   88000000-8fffffff : ichar
> e0003000-e00030ff : fsl-i2c.1
> e0004500-e0004507 : serial
>=20
> In our driver, I do an ioremap_nocache with 0x8400_0000 as an argument
> to the ioremap and am returned a virtual address of the form
> 0xc905_8000. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to access my registers as =
they
> all return zero when accessed with the iowrite32/ioread32 helper
> functions.
>=20
> A little further. We do use the Outbound Address Translation window
> feature in the 8541 to get to our PCI device and I do set this up in
> uboot and I can read and write registers on our ASIC from uboot. Its
> just in the Linux driver that I seem to be having trouble.
>=20
> So,... I am hoping someone could give me a couple of pointers on where
> to look next for the missing piece of why I cannot access the =
registers
> on our ASIC from Linux whereas things were working fine from uboot
> before booting Linux.
>=20
> Charles
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