iPXE 1.21.1

Use segment and bus number to identify PCI root bridge I/O protocol

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iPXE
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1.2x
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1.21.1
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Peter J. Mello
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There may be multiple instances of EFI_PCI_ROOT_BRIDGE_IO_PROTOCOL for a single PCI segment. Use the bus number range descriptor from the ACPI resource list to identify the correct protocol instance.

There is some discrepancy between the ACPI and UEFI specifications regarding the interpretation of values within the ACPI resource list.

The ACPI specification defines the min/max field values to be within the secondary (device-side) address space, and defines the offset field value as "the offset that must be added to the address on the secondary side to obtain the address on the primary side".

The UEFI specification states instead that the offset field value is the "offset to apply to the starting address to convert it to a PCI
address", helpfully omitting to clarify whether "to apply" in this context means "to add" or "to subtract". The implication of the
wording is also that the "starting address" is not already a "PCI address" and must therefore be a host-side address rather than the
ACPI-defined device-side address.

Code comments in the EDK2 codebase seem to support the latter (non-ACPI) interpretation of these ACPI structures. For example, in the PciHostBridgeDxe driver there can be found the comment

  Macros to translate device address to host address and vice versa.
  According to UEFI 2.7, device address = host address + translation offset.

along with a pair of macros TO_HOST_ADDRESS() and TO_DEVICE_ADDRESS() which similarly negate the sense of the "translation offset" from the definition found in the ACPI specification.

The existing logic in efipci_ioremap() (based on a presumed-working externally contributed patch) applies the non-ACPI interpretation: it assumes that min/max field values are host-side addresses and that the offset field value is negated.

Match this existing logic by assuming that min/max field values are host-side bus numbers. (The bus number offset value is therefore not required and so can be ignored.)

As noted in commit 9b25f6e ("[efi] Fall back to assuming identity mapping of MMIO address space"), some systems seem to fail to provide MMIO address space descriptors. Assume that some systems may similarly fail to provide bus number range descriptors, and fall back in this situation to assuming that matching on segment number alone is sufficient.

Testing any of this is unfortunately impossible without access to esoteric hardware that actually uses non-zero translation offsets.

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