linux-kernel - Re: [patch] fix 64-vbit prefetchable memory resource BARs

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Message-Id: <200810150305.25258.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:05:25 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Peter Chubb <peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc:	matthew@....cx, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fix 64-vbit prefetchable memory resource BARs

On Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:49 pm Peter Chubb wrote:
> Since patch 6ac665c63dcac8fcec534a1d224ecbb8b867ad59
> my infiniband controller hasn't worked.  This is because it has
> 64-bit prefetchable memory, which was mistakenly being  taken to be
> 32-bit memory.  The resource flags in this case are
> PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64|PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_PREFETCH.
>
> This patch checks only for the PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64 bit; thus
> whether the region is prefetchable or not is ignored.  This fixes my
> Infiniband.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au>

Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks.  I'll be sending to Linus soon 
(hopefully today).

Thanks,
Jesse
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