Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

[Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I am still worried that the conditions which generate the following
> message indicate a problem still exists.  (this message exists w/out
> your patch..)
> Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent

Well, I believe that transparent bridge must use subtractive decoding.
Specification allows such thing, but the bridge with subtractive
decoding enabled _must_ have programming interface code == 01h.
If you're curious try this patch (not for applying, just for
testing).

Ivan.

--- 2.4.0t11p1/drivers/pci/pci.c	Fri Oct 27 02:16:46 2000
+++ linux/drivers/pci/pci.c	Thu Nov  9 17:08:16 2000
@@ -574,6 +574,14 @@ void __init pci_read_bridge_bases(struct
 	if (!dev)		/* It's a host bus, nothing to read */
 		return;
 
+	if (dev->class & 1) {
+		printk("Subtractive decoding bridge %s\nAssuming transparent\n",
+					dev->name);
+		for(i=0; i<3; i++)
+			child->resource[i] = child->parent->resource[i];
+		return;
+	}
+
 	for(i=0; i<3; i++)
 		child->resource[i] = &dev->resource[PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCES+i];
 
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