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Then a high +resolution picture of it is taken, to be able to tell the difference. + +The problem: +------------ +But then comes the docking port issue: Some LPC pins are exported +there, such as the CLKRUN and LDRQ#. + +LDRQ# is "Encoded DMA/Bus Master Request": "Only needed by +peripherals that need DMA or bus mastering. Requires an +individual signal per peripheral. Peripherals may not share +an LDRQ# signal." + +So now DMA access is possible trough the dock connector. +So I want to be able to turn that off. + +If I got it right, the X60 has 2 superio, one is in the dock, and the +other one is in the laptop, so we have: + ________________ + _________________ | | +| | | Dock connector:| +|Dock: NSC pc87982|<--LPC--->D_LPC_DREQ0 | +|_________________| |_______^________| + | + | + | + | + ___________________|____ + | v | + | SuperIO: DLDRQ# | + | NSC pc87382 LDRQ# | + |___________________^____| + | + | + | + | + ___________________|___ + | v | + | Southbridge: LDRQ0 | + | ICH7 | + |_______________________| + + +The code: +--------- +Now if I look at the existing code, there is some superio drivers, like +pc87382 in src/superio/nsc, the code is very small. +The only interesting part is the pnp_info pnp_dev_info struct. + +Now if I look inside src/mainboard/lenovo/x60 there is some more +complete dock driver: + +Inside dock.c I see some dock_connect and dock_disconnect functions. + +Such functions are called during the initialisation (romstage.c) and +from the X60 SMI handler (smihandler.c). + +Questions: +---------- +1) Would the following be sufficent to prevent DMA access from the +outside: +> int dock_connect(void) +> { +> int timeout = 1000; +> + int val; +> + +> + if (get_option(&val, "dock") != CB_SUCCESS) +> + val = 1; +> + if (val == 0) +> + return 0; +> [...] +> } +> +> void dock_disconnect(void) { +> + if (dock_present()) +> + return; +> [...] +> } +2) Would an nvram option be ok for that? Should a Kconfig option be +added too? + +> config DOCK_AUTODETECT +> bool "Autodetect" +> help +> The dock is autodetected. If unsure select this option. +> +> config DOCK_DISABLED +> bool "Disabled" +> help +> The dock is always disabled. +> +> config DOCK_NVRAM_ENABLE +> bool "Nvram" +> help +> The dock autodetection is tried only if it is also enabled +> trough nvram. + +</pre> + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <p> + Copyright © 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org><br/> + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document + under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 + or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; + with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. + A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../gfdl-1.3.txt">../gfdl-1.3.txt</a> + </p> + + <p> + Updated versions of the license (when available) can be found at + <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html</a> + </p> + + <p> + UNLESS OTHERWISE SEPARATELY UNDERTAKEN BY THE LICENSOR, TO THE + EXTENT POSSIBLE, THE LICENSOR OFFERS THE LICENSED MATERIAL AS-IS + AND AS-AVAILABLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF + ANY KIND CONCERNING THE LICENSED MATERIAL, WHETHER EXPRESS, + IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHER. 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