linux-kernel - Re: Possible issue with dangling PCI BARs

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:11:54 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
Cc:	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Possible issue with dangling PCI BARs


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 06:52 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 14:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > While reworking the powerpc PCI resource management, to make it more
> > x86-like and use more of the generic code in setup-bus.c and
> > setup-res.c, I noticed something a bit fishy in the way we deal with
> > resources that we failed to assign.
> 
> On a tangent here, is there a way (other than pci=rom) to ensure greater
> address space/resource space for PCI resource mappings?

limit lowmem ? 4g/4g ? 64 bits ? :-)

Ben


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