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prasys

Feb 5 2010, 03:08 PM

Hey guys

Recently , I bought a PCI FireWire card and it had some issues. For instance that it would not say that its built-in and it will say something about secure mode. This has caused me kernel panic with couple of firewire devices. After countless hours of searching , I've found the fix for it , it seems that you gotta add fwhub to your firewire and then it will work. Well I tested it out and it did work with my NEC FireWire PCI card.

You'll have to find your firewire device ADR and add in. Anyway this is mine. Credit goes to the King on fixing the ADR for me , otherwise I'll be screwed big time

CODE

         Device (FRWR) // FireWire PCI
                {
                    Name (_ADR, 0x00010000)
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x02)
                            {
                                "fwhub",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                }
                            }, Local0)
                        DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }
                }
            }

scrax

Feb 14 2010, 11:25 AM

QUOTE (prasys @ Feb 5 2010, 04:08 PM)

Hey guys

Recently , I bought a PCI FireWire card and it had some issues. For instance that it would not say that its built-in and it will say something about secure mode. This has caused me kernel panic with couple of firewire devices. After countless hours of searching , I've found the fix for it , it seems that you gotta add fwhub to your firewire and then it will work. Well I tested it out and it did work with my NEC FireWire PCI card.

You'll have to find your firewire device ADR and add in. Anyway this is mine. Credit goes to the King on fixing the ADR for me , otherwise I'll be screwed big time

CODE

         Device (FRWR) // FireWire PCI
                {
                    Name (_ADR, 0x00010000)
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x02)
                            {
                                "fwhub",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                }
                            }, Local0)
                        DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }
                }
            }

For me this dosen't fix hotplug, the anly workaround is to make a sleep and wake, and after this it works

EDIT: I've tried this:

CODE

Name(_HPP, Package(){0x08,0x40, One, One}) //6.2.6 _HPP (Hot Plug Parameters) pg.172 ACPIspec3.0b

just before the Device (FRWR) line, but still nothing...

gsam_fan

Feb 27 2010, 11:51 AM

for me it worked by deleting FWHD devie and added it as FRWR into P0P1 Device...

CODE

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.
.

    Method (MCDP, 2, NotSerialized)
    {
        If (LEqual (Arg0, Zero))
        {
            Store (Buffer (One)
                {
                    0x03
                }, Arg1)
        }
    }
.
.
.
.

            Device (P0P1)
            {
                Name (_ADR, 0x001E0000)
                Method (_PRT, 0, NotSerialized)
                {
                    If (PICM)
                    {
                        Return (AR01)
                    }

                    Return (PR01)
                }

                Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Return (Package (0x02)
                    {
                        0x0B,
                        0x05
                    })
                }

                Device (FRWR)
                {
                    Name (_ADR, 0x05040000)
                    Name (_SUN, 0x02)
                    Name (_GPE, 0x19)
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x0A)
                            {
                                "built-in",
                                Buffer (One)
                                {
                                    0x00
                                },

                                "fwhub",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                },

                                "device-id",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x11, 0x58, 0x00, 0x00
                                },

                                "vendor-id",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0xC1, 0x11, 0x00, 0x00
                                },

                                "name",
                                Buffer (0x18)
                                {
                                    "Agere Systems FW322/323"
                                }

                            }, Local0)
                        MCDP (Arg2, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }
                }
            }
.
.
.
.
.
        Method (_L19, 0, NotSerialized)
        {
            Notify (\_SB.PCI0.P0P1.FRWR, Zero)
            Notify (\_SB.PWRB, 0x02)
        }
    }

x.di

Mar 5 2010, 08:19 AM

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tea

Mar 5 2010, 08:57 AM

Wow, i too have Gigabyte! Very interesting solutions! I'll try it.
About IRQ routing - you can assign IRQ by editing _PTR method in PCI0 device and in all HUB devices. For example:
PCI0 device _PTR:

QUOTE

// HDEF
Package () { 0x001BFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16 },

// PEGP
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10 }, // PEGP
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x11 },
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 },
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x13 },

// PEX0-PEX5
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10 }, // PEX0
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x11 }, //
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 }, //
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x13 }, // PEX3
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10 }, // PEX4 -> GIGE
Package () { 0x001CFFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x11 }, //

// USB
Package () { 0x001DFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x17 }, // EHC1 UHC1
Package () { 0x001DFFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x13 }, // UHC2
Package () { 0x001DFFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 }, // UHC3
Package () { 0x001DFFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x10 },

// SATA & SBUS
Package () { 0x001FFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x13 },
Package () { 0x001FFFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x13 }, // SATA
Package () { 0x001FFFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 }, // SBUS

// USB
Package () { 0x001AFFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10 }, // UHC4
Package () { 0x001AFFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x15 }, // UHC5
Package () { 0x001AFFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 }, // EHC2
Package () { 0x001AFFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 } // UHC6

PCIB device _PTR:

QUOTE

Package () { 0x0000FFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x14 }, // ARPT
Package () { 0x0000FFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x13 },
Package () { 0x0000FFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x12 },
Package () { 0x0000FFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x10 },

Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x12 }, // FRWR
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x10 },
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x14 },
Package () { 0x0001FFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x13 },

Package () { 0x0002FFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x13 },
Package () { 0x0002FFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x12 },
Package () { 0x0002FFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x10 },
Package () { 0x0002FFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x14 },

Package () { 0x0007FFFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x17 },
Package () { 0x0007FFFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x17 },
Package () { 0x0007FFFF, 0x02, 0x00, 0x17 },
Package () { 0x0007FFFF, 0x03, 0x00, 0x17 }

Thank you for solution.

x.di

Mar 5 2010, 10:25 AM

QUOTE (tea @ Mar 5 2010, 10:57 AM)

Wow, i too have Gigabyte! Very interesting solutions! I'll try it.
About IRQ routing - you can assign IRQ by editing _PTR method in PCI0 device and in all HUB devices. For example:
...

Привет.
Thanks.I know this stuff and this cause problems.
On Gigabyte boards too much devices can share one IRQ and this is the real problem .
On mac pro IRQs assigns differently and when i try to use mac pro IRQ (_PRT) on gigabyte board than i end with "Still waiting for root device"
because on mac pro 4.1 Sata have IRQ 11 and on gig board SATA can have IRQ 12 or 13...
But more important USB and Firewire because they gets shared IRQ (UHC6, EHC2, UHC3, SBUS,Firewire )
That just TOO MUCH -> system will LAG!
But important EHC1 and UHC1 that is the pain!
On MACs they have different IRQs 10 and 17
but on Gig boards whatever i try they gets shared IRQ..
I will try to dig deeper... May be I miss something.
may be if i assign for EHC1 UHC1 irq 10 and for firewire irq 17 it would help without disabling one high speed bus??? don't know.

Konsti

Dec 23 2010, 02:35 PM

QUOTE (tea @ Mar 5 2010, 10:57 AM)

Wow, i too have Gigabyte! Very interesting solutions! I'll try it.
About IRQ routing - you can assign IRQ by editing _PTR method in PCI0 device and in all HUB devices.
Thank you for solution.

Dear tea, this is very good information; I was wondering what all that was in my DSDTs.
Please, can you tell me how I can tell which device is assigned to which part/address?
I mean, how can I know where GIGE or FRWR or ARPT are assigned in my DSDT, for IRQs?
Is there a method or some guideline you can tell us?
Thank you all. Merry Christmas!

tea

Dec 23 2010, 06:22 PM

Package () { 0x001BFFFF, Zero, Zero, 0x16 },
...
Device (HDEF)
{
Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
...
}

Konsti

Dec 23 2010, 08:26 PM

QUOTE (tea @ Dec 23 2010, 08:22 PM)

Package () { 0x001BFFFF, Zero, Zero, 0x16 },
...
Device (HDEF)
{
Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
...
}

I must be blind! Thank you very much, indeed. Merry Christmas to all