linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for 2.6.19] [6/9] x86_64: Update MMCONFIG resource insertion to check against e820 map.

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Message-Id: <200611141958.00289.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:58:00 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Aaron Durbin" <adurbin@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.19] [6/9] x86_64: Update MMCONFIG resource insertion to check against e820 map.

> I would like to know what others think regarding this area. I think it
> would be a good
> idea to converge the mmconfig.c implementations for both x86-64 and i386. Is
> this not feasable for some reasons I am unaware of?  It should lead to more
> code reuse and allow for a more unified stance in how both architectures handle
> the PCI memory-mapped config space.

Yes, it should be done. But not 100% because x86-64 can use a much more
efficient mapping scheme than i386.

Probably with a mmconfig-common.c. When mmconfig.c was originally written
there wasn't that much support code and the fork wasn't a issue, it just has 
grown over time as we work around more and more bugs.

-Andi
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