linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as well as x86

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Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:42:12 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
CC:	Yinghai <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as well
 as x86_32

On 04/07/2010 08:24 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> I actually did propose doing something in pci_setup_device(), similar to
> what we already do for legacy IDE resources, but HPA thought it should
> be done in the arch code instead, again for reasons I don't completely
> understand.
> 

"Non-PCI devices" is hard to understand?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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