linux-kernel - Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"

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Message-ID: <20080326221027.GA7959@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:10:27 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>, pm@...ian.org
Subject: Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"


* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> > NOTE! This will also consider a bridge resource at 0 to be an 
> > invalid resource (since now the alignment will be zero), which is a 
> > bit odd and makes me worry a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if some 
> > non-PC architectures have PCI bridges at zero. But maybe they should 
> > be (or already are?) marked IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED?
> 
> PCI bridges at zero is perfectly valid indeed and I'm sure we have 
> that around at least for IO space. In fact, I'm surprised you don't 
> have that on x86. Typically, things like an HT segment with a P2P 
> bridge and behind that bridge an ISA bridge could well have the P2P 
> bridge with a resource forwarding 0...0x1000 IO downstream for example 
> even on x86 no ? (I'm not -that- familiar with the crazyness of legacy 
> ISA on x86 but I've definitely seen such setup on other archs).

0..0x1000 physical memory (== bus memory on x86) is reserved to the BIOS 
as RAM in essence and that legacy will be with us for at least 100 or 
maybe 200 years ;-)

	Ingo
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