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pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
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This BIOS claims the VIA 8237 south bridge to be compatible with VIA 586,
which it is not.

Without this patch, I get the following warning while booting,
among others,

| PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3227] at 0000:00:11.0
| ------------[ cut here ]------------
| WARNING: at arch/x86/pci/irq.c:265 pirq_via586_get+0x4a/0x60()
| Modules linked in:
| Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc4-00015-g1ec7d99 #1
|  [<c0119fd4>] warn_on_slowpath+0x54/0x70
|  [<c02246e0>] ? vt_console_print+0x210/0x2b0
|  [<c02244d0>] ? vt_console_print+0x0/0x2b0
|  [<c011a413>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x43/0x60
|  [<c011a482>] ? _call_console_drivers+0x52/0x80
|  [<c011aa89>] ? release_console_sem+0x1c9/0x200
|  [<c0291d21>] ? raw_pci_read+0x41/0x70
|  [<c0291e8f>] ? pci_read+0x2f/0x40
|  [<c029151a>] pirq_via586_get+0x4a/0x60
|  [<c02914d0>] ? pirq_via586_get+0x0/0x60
|  [<c029178d>] pcibios_lookup_irq+0x15d/0x430
|  [<c03b895a>] pcibios_irq_init+0x17a/0x3e0
|  [<c03a66f0>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x250
|  [<c03a6763>] kernel_init+0x73/0x250
|  [<c03b87e0>] ? pcibios_irq_init+0x0/0x3e0
|  [<c0114d00>] ? schedule_tail+0x10/0x40
|  [<c0102dee>] ? ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
|  [<c03a66f0>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x250
|  [<c03a66f0>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x250
|  [<c010324b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
|  =======================
| ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

and IRQ trouble later,

| irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

Now that's an VIA 8237 chip, so pirq_via586_get shouldn't be called
at all; adding this workaround to via_router_probe() fixes the
problem for me.

Amazingly I have a 2.6.23.8 kernel that somehow works fine ... I'll
never understand why.

Signed-off-by: Bertram Felgenhauer <int-e@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Bertram Felgenhauer authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jun 2, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -621,6 +621,13 @@ static __init int via_router_probe(struct irq_router *r,
*/
device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8235;
break;
case PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237:
/**
* Asus a7v600 bios wrongly reports 8237
* as 586-compatible
*/
device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237;
break;
}
}

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