From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't touch BARs of host bridges
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:46:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102653999.22763.22.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412092349560.6535@perivale.mips.com>
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:20 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> BARs of host bridges often have special meaning and AFAIK are best left
> to be setup by the firmware or system-specific startup code and kept
> intact by the generic resource handler. For example a couple of host
> bridges used for MIPS processors interpret BARs as target-mode decoders
> for accessing host memory by PCI masters (which is quite reasonable).
Not very reasonable in fact imho but that happens on some embedded PPCs
was well :) So I agree, that would be useful to skip them. I'm not sure
about PCI_CLASS_NOT_DEFINED tho ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-10 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-10 0:20 Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-10 4:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-12-10 13:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-10 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-13 2:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-17 21:46 ` Greg KH
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