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1 An introduction to the PCI configuration space registers
Device Discovery An introduction to the PCI configuration space registers

2 In the beginning… The original IBM-PC was built using an assortment of off-the-shelf components produced by a variety of manufacturers Certain peripheral components were a mandatory part of the design (e.g., timer, keyboard, diskette-drive, etc), while others were considered optional “add-ons” (e.g., color display, floating-point coprocessor, line-printer, modem, mouse, etc)

3 …there was chaos! The PC’s operating system was a mass-produced piece of software (e.g. PC-DOS) that needed to execute successfully on all the different PC equipment configurations There had to be a way for the OS to find out which kinds of devices were actually attached to the particular machine it was running on – so it could avoid attempts at using hardware which wasn’t present

4 The ROM-BIOS POST During startup, the ROM-BIOS code did a “Power-On Self-Test” routine to detect the presence of those peripheral components that were standard features of the PC, and also to initialize them where necessary For example, the Programmable Interrupt Controller needed its mask-register to be initialized, and the Programmable Interval Timer’s latch-registers needed to be setup

5 Simplified Block Diagram
optional FPU CPU main memory (amount varies) optional EMS system bus keyboard controller interrupt controller programmable timer/counter serial 1 serial 2 serial 3 serial 4 parallel 1 parallel 2 parallel 3 …plus other peripheral components (not shown)

6 Components were all different
There was no standard way to detect the various peripheral devices – each needed its own “non-reusable” code-sequence for discovering it and configuring it to operate System programmers had to learn details of the unique designs for all the different possible microprocessors’ capabilities

7 Older probing methods…
Originally the IBM PC/AT’s hardware and BIOS supported up to 4 serial-port UARTs (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) IBM’s PC designers reserved four I/O-port address-ranges for these devices: COM1: 0x03F8-0x03FF </dev/ttyS0> COM2: 0x02F8-0x02FF </dev/ttyS1> COM3: 0x03E8-0x03EF </dev/ttyS2> COM4: 0x02E8-0x02EF </dev/ttyS3>

8 …checked ‘reserved’ ports
Example: Any serial-UART device always has a “scratch” register (at offset 7) – a register that performs no functions, but it can be used by programmers to save, and read back, values Thus system software can detect the presence of these serial UARTs by attempting to write and read back some test-values at these ‘reserved’ port-locations: if those values can be read back successfully, it means this UART is installed

9 Probing for 16550 UARTs ports: .short 0x03F8, 0x02F8, 0x03E8, 0x02E8
ndevs: .short 0 # loop to count the number of serial-port devices installed xor %esi, %esi # array-index and loop-counter nxtry: mov ports(, %esi, 2), %dx # base of port-address range add $7, %dx # plus offset to scratch-register mov $0x55, %al # setup test-value in AL mov %al, %ah # save copy of test-value in AH outb %al, %dx # try writing to the scratch register in %dx, %al # try reading back that test-value xor %ah, %al # see if these two values agree jne fail # the scratch-register isn’t there! incw ndevs # else count this UART fail: incl %esi # advance array-index cmp $4, %esi # all reserved ranges checked? jb nxtry # no, try next expected location # when we arrive here, the ‘ndevs’ variable holds the number of UART devices found

10 Some background on PCI ISA: Industry Standard Architecture (1981)
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect An Intel-backed industry initiative (1992-9) Main goals: Reduce the diversity inherent in legacy ISA Improve data-xfers to/from peripheral devices Eliminate (or reduce) platform dependencies Simplify adding/removing peripheral devices Lower total consumption of electrical power

11 PCI Configuration Space
A non-volatile parameter-storage area for each PCI device-function PCI Configuration Space Header (16 doublewords – fixed format) PCI Configuration Space Body (48 doublewords – variable format) 64 doublewords

12 Class/SubClass/ProgIF Expansion ROM Base Address
Example: Header Type 0 16 doublewords Dwords Status Register Command Register Device ID Vendor ID 1 - 0 BIST Header Type Latency Timer Cache Line Size Class Code Class/SubClass/ProgIF Revision ID 3 - 2 Base Address 1 Base Address 0 5 - 4 Base Address 3 Base Address 2 7 - 6 Base Address 5 Base Address 4 9 - 8 Subsystem Device ID Subsystem Vendor ID CardBus CIS Pointer reserved capabilities pointer Expansion ROM Base Address Maximum Latency Minimum Grant Interrupt Pin Interrupt Line reserved

13 The ‘Header Type’ field
Multi- Function Device flag Header Type Configuration Header Format ID 0 = Single-Function Device 1 = Multi-Function Device

14 Interface to PCI Configuration Space
PCI Configuration Space Address Port (32-bits) CONFADD ( 0x0CF8) E N reserved bus (8-bits) device (5-bits) function (3-bits) doubleword (6-bits) 00 Enable Configuration Space Mapping (1=yes, 0=no) PCI Configuration Space Data Port (32-bits) CONFDAT ( 0x0CFC)

15 Reading PCI Configuration Data
Step one: Output the desired longword’s address (bus, device, function, and dword) with bit 31 set to 1 (to enable access) to the Configuration-Space Address-Port Step two: Read the designated data from the Configuration-Space Data-Port: # read the PCI Header-Type field (byte 2 of dword 3) for bus=0, device=0, function=0 movl $0x C, %eax # setup address in EAX movw $0x0CF8, %dx # setup port-number in DX outl %eax, %dx # output address to port mov $0x0CFC, %dx # setup port-number in DX inl %dx, %eax # input configuration longword shr $16, %eax # shift word 2 into AL register movb %al, header_type # store Header Type in variable

16 Examples of VENDOR-IDs
0x8086 – Intel Corporation 0x1022 – Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 0x1002 – Advanced Technologies, Inc 0x10EC – RealTek, Incorporated 0x10DE – Nvidia Corporation 0x10B7 – 3Com Corporation 0x101C – Western Digital, Inc 0x1014 – IBM Corporation 0x0E11 – Compaq Corporation 0x1057 – Motorola Corporation 0x106B – Apple Computers, Inc 0x5333 – Silicon Integrated Systems, Inc

17 Examples of DEVICE-IDs
0x5347: ATI RAGE128 SG 0x4C58: ATI RADEON LX 0x5950: ATI RS480 0x436E: ATI IXP300 SATA 0x438C: ATI IXP600 IDE See this Linux header-file for lots more: </usr/src/linux/include/linux/pci_ids.h>

18 Defined PCI Class Codes
0x00: Legacy Device (i.e., built before class-codes were defined) 0x01: Mass Storage controller 0x02: Network controller 0x03: Display controller 0x04: Multimedia device 0x05: Memory Controller 0x06: Bridge device 0x07: Simple Communications controller 0x08: Base System peripherals 0x09: Input device 0x0A: Docking stations 0x0B: Processors 0x0C: Serial Bus controllers 0x0D: Wireless controllers 0x0E: Intelligent I/O controllers 0x0F: Encryption/Decryption controllers 0x10: Satellite Communications controllers 0x11: Data Acquisition and Signal Processing controllers

19 Example of Sub-Class Codes
Class Code 0x01: Mass Storage controller 0x00: SCSI controller 0x01: IDE controller 0x02: Floppy Disk controller 0x03: IPI controller 0x04: RAID controller 0x80: Other Mass Storage controller

20 Example of Sub-Class Codes
Class Code 0x02: Network controller 0x00: Ethernet controller 0x01: Token Ring controller 0x02: FDDI controller 0x03: ATM controller 0x04: ISDN controller 0x80: Other Network controller

21 Using the BIOS PCI services
To assist system software authors in doing “device detection”, the PC’s ROM-BIOS now includes service-functions that search for particular devices or classes of devices These service-functions are invoked while in real-mode via software interrupt 0x1A, with function-number 0xB1 in register AH and with a PCI sub-function ID-number in register AL (about a dozen sub-functions)

22 PCI BIOS example Search for your PC’s ethernet controller (Device Class is 0x02, Sub-Class is 0x00) # code-example: Finding the Vendor-ID for your computer’s ethernet controller mov $0xB103, %ax # PCI Find Class function mov $0x020000, %ecx # PCI Class (network/ethernet) xor %esi, %esi # initialize search index int $0x1A # request BIOS service jnc found # function was successful jmp error # else the function failed found: # if successful, BX = bus/device/function mov $0xB109, %ax # PCI Read Configuration Word mov $0x0000, %di # PCI Register-Number jc success # vendor-ID is in register CX # NOTE: This code was written for execution while the Pentium is in real-mode

23 Some references Professor Ralf Brown’s Interrupt List (see the online link on our CS630 website) Tom Shanley and Don Anderson, “PCI System Architecture (4th Edition),” MindShare, Inc. (Addison-Wesley, 1999)

24 Demo Program We created a short Linux utility that searches for a system’s PCI devices (named “pciprobe.cpp” on CS630 website) It uses some C++ macros that expand to Intel input/output instructions -- which normally are ‘privileged’ instructions that a Linux application-program is not allowed to execute (segfault!) Our system administrator (Alex Fedosov) has created a utility (named “iopl3”) that will allow your command-shell to acquire root privileges

25 In-Class Exercise After you have experimented with running the “pciprobe.cpp” utility (be sure you run the “iopl3” program first), see if you can modify “pciprobe” so that it will display the Class Code for each PCI device-function that it identifies as being present This will give you practice in reading some useful data from PCI Configuration Space


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