Re: PATCH: IDE - sensible probing for PCI systems

[Alan Cox]

>  How is the range defined -- is there a way for us to find it?  I'd assume 
> in the absence of a PCI-ISA or PCI-EISA bridge all I/O port addresses 
> belong to PCI.  Otherwise the usual rule of "(addr & 0x300) == 0" applies.  
> Perhaps with the addition of "(addr & ~0xff) != 0" for safety as junk I/O 
> is often not recorded properly in BARs, sigh...

No the low addresses belong to the chipset and motherboard. There is
also magic then for video and IDE legacy port ranges. I suspect your
mips boxen might be a lot cleaner than the PC world.

Alan

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