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authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>2013-08-06 14:48:37 +0100
committerIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2013-08-08 12:03:12 +0100
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rombios/ata: Do not wait for BSY to be set
After issuing a reset, the BSY bit is expected to be set. This is not the case for Qemu. In SeaBIOS.git: 580e33293244fee4556e56ecc67b8bd877f3c496 this check was even replaced with a udelay(5), as enough real hardware ignored the BSY bit as well. As rombios does not have an equivalent udelay(), replace the wait with a write to port 0x80 which is whitelisted by Xen for 'a small delay'. This causes 42k fewer IO traps to Qemu. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/firmware')
-rw-r--r--tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c b/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
index e364759b3b..a3efc618e0 100644
--- a/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
+++ b/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
@@ -2914,8 +2914,8 @@ Bit16u device;
// 8.2.1 (a) -- set SRST in DC
outb(iobase2+ATA_CB_DC, ATA_CB_DC_HD15 | ATA_CB_DC_NIEN | ATA_CB_DC_SRST);
-// 8.2.1 (b) -- wait for BSY
- await_ide(BSY, iobase1, 20);
+// 8.2.1 (b) -- wait
+ outb(0x80, 0x00);
// 8.2.1 (f) -- clear SRST
outb(iobase2+ATA_CB_DC, ATA_CB_DC_HD15 | ATA_CB_DC_NIEN);