# MCA Driver Programming Interface

Alan
Cox

          alan@redhat.com

David
Weinehall
Chris
Beauregard
2000
Alan Cox
David Weinehall
Chris Beauregard

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## Introduction

The MCA bus functions provide a generalised interface to find MCA bus cards, to claim them for a driver, and to read and manipulate POS registers without being aware of the motherboard internals or certain deep magic specific to onboard devices.

The basic interface to the MCA bus devices is the slot. Each slot is numbered and virtual slot numbers are assigned to the internal devices. Using a pci_dev as other busses do does not really make sense in the MCA context as the MCA bus resources require card specific interpretation.

Finally the MCA bus functions provide a parallel set of DMA functions mimicing the ISA bus DMA functions as closely as possible, although also supporting the additional DMA functionality on the MCA bus controllers.

## Known Bugs And Assumptions

None.

## Public Functions Provided

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_find_adapter
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_find_adapter

scan for adapters

#### Synopsis

       int mca_find_adapter
       int id
       int start

#### Arguments

`id`

  MCA identification to search for

`start`

  starting slot

#### Description

Search the MCA configuration for adapters matching the 16bit ID given. The first time it should be called with start as zero and then further calls made passing the return value of the previous call until `MCA_NOTFOUND` is returned.

Disabled adapters are not reported.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_find_unused_adapter
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_find_unused_adapter

scan for unused adapters

#### Synopsis

       int mca_find_unused_adapter
       int id
       int start

#### Arguments

`id`

  MCA identification to search for

`start`

  starting slot

#### Description

Search the MCA configuration for adapters matching the 16bit ID given. The first time it should be called with start as zero and then further calls made passing the return value of the previous call until `MCA_NOTFOUND` is returned.

Adapters that have been claimed by drivers and those that are disabled are not reported. This function thus allows a driver to scan for further cards when some may already be driven.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_read_stored_pos
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_read_stored_pos

read POS register from boot data

#### Synopsis

       unsigned char mca_read_stored_pos
       int slot
       int reg

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot number to read from

`reg`

  register to read from

#### Description

Fetch a POS value that was stored at boot time by the kernel when it scanned the MCA space. The register value is returned. Missing or invalid registers report 0.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_read_pos
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_read_pos

read POS register from card

#### Synopsis

       unsigned char mca_read_pos
       int slot
       int reg

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot number to read from

`reg`

  register to read from

#### Description

Fetch a POS value directly from the hardware to obtain the current value. This is much slower than mca_read_stored_pos and may not be invoked from interrupt context. It handles the deep magic required for onboard devices transparently.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_write_pos
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_write_pos

read POS register from card

#### Synopsis

       void mca_write_pos
       int slot
       int reg
       unsigned char byte

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot number to read from

`reg`

  register to read from

`byte`

  byte to write to the POS registers

#### Description

Store a POS value directly from the hardware. You should not normally need to use this function and should have a very good knowledge of MCA bus before you do so. Doing this wrongly can damage the hardware.

This function may not be used from interrupt context.

Note that this a technically a Bad Thing, as IBM tech stuff says you should only set POS values through their utilities. However, some devices such as the 3c523 recommend that you write back some data to make sure the configuration is consistent. I'd say that IBM is right, but I like my drivers to work.

This function can't do checks to see if multiple devices end up with the same resources, so you might see magic smoke if someone screws up.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_set_adapter_name
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_set_adapter_name

Set the description of the card

#### Synopsis

       void mca_set_adapter_name
       int slot
       char * name

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot to name

`name`

  text string for the namen

#### Description

This function sets the name reported via /proc for this adapter slot. This is for user information only. Setting a name deletes any previous name.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_is_adapter_used
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_is_adapter_used

check if claimed by driver

#### Synopsis

       int mca_is_adapter_used
       int slot

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot to check

#### Description

Returns 1 if the slot has been claimed by a driver

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_mark_as_used
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_mark_as_used

claim an MCA device

#### Synopsis

       int mca_mark_as_used
       int slot

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot to claim

#### FIXME

should we make this threadsafe

Claim an MCA slot for a device driver. If the slot is already taken the function returns 1, if it is not taken it is claimed and 0 is returned.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_mark_as_unused
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_mark_as_unused

release an MCA device

#### Synopsis

       void mca_mark_as_unused
       int slot

#### Arguments

`slot`

  slot to claim

#### Description

Release the slot for other drives to use.

## DMA Functions Provided

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_enable_dma
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_enable_dma

channel to enable DMA on

#### Synopsis

       void mca_enable_dma
       unsigned int dmanr

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

#### Description

Enable the MCA bus DMA on a channel. This can be called from IRQ context.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_disable_dma
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_disable_dma

channel to disable DMA on

#### Synopsis

       void mca_disable_dma
       unsigned int dmanr

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

#### Description

Enable the MCA bus DMA on a channel. This can be called from IRQ context.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_set_dma_addr
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_set_dma_addr

load a 24bit DMA address

#### Synopsis

       void mca_set_dma_addr
       unsigned int dmanr
       unsigned int a

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

`a`

  24bit bus address

#### Description

Load the address register in the DMA controller. This has a 24bit limitation (16Mb).

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_get_dma_addr
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_get_dma_addr

load a 24bit DMA address

#### Synopsis

       unsigned int mca_get_dma_addr
       unsigned int dmanr

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

#### Description

Read the address register in the DMA controller. This has a 24bit limitation (16Mb). The return is a bus address.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_set_dma_count
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_set_dma_count

load a 16bit transfer count

#### Synopsis

       void mca_set_dma_count
       unsigned int dmanr
       unsigned int count

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

`count`

  count

#### Description

Set the DMA count for this channel. This can be up to 64Kbytes. Setting a count of zero will not do what you expect.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_get_dma_residue
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_get_dma_residue

get the remaining bytes to transfer

#### Synopsis

       unsigned int mca_get_dma_residue
       unsigned int dmanr

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

#### Description

This function returns the number of bytes left to transfer on this DMA channel.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_set_dma_io
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_set_dma_io

set the port for an I/O transfer

#### Synopsis

       void mca_set_dma_io
       unsigned int dmanr
       unsigned int io_addr

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

`io_addr`

  an I/O port number

#### Description

Unlike the ISA bus DMA controllers the DMA on MCA bus can transfer with an I/O port target.

### LINUX

Kernel Hackers Manual January 2008
mca_set_dma_mode
9
2.6.24-rc6-git8

### mca_set_dma_mode

set the DMA mode

#### Synopsis

       void mca_set_dma_mode
       unsigned int dmanr
       unsigned int mode

#### Arguments

`dmanr`

  DMA channel

`mode`

  mode to set

#### Description

The DMA controller supports several modes. The mode values you can set are-

`MCA_DMA_MODE_READ` when reading from the DMA device.

`MCA_DMA_MODE_WRITE` to writing to the DMA device.

`MCA_DMA_MODE_IO` to do DMA to or from an I/O port.

`MCA_DMA_MODE_16` to do 16bit transfers.