Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely

People complained that setting the PCI config space access mechanism
through "pci=conf1" or "pci=conf2" on the command line is not really
documented. Yeah, can you blame them? Look at what we have now.

So try to improve the situation a bit by explaining what those "conf1"
and "conf2" things actually mean.

See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info.

Suggested-by: Eric Morton <Eric.Morton@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: Added the above URL to the document too]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Borislav Petkov 2016-01-13 16:48:51 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Mechanism 1.
conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Mechanism 2.
conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
bus number. The config space is then accessed
through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
on the configuration access mechanisms.
noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.