Re: [PATCH] PCI MMConfig: Detect and support the E7520 and the 945G/GZ/P/PL

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 15:45:00 EST


On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:57:41PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:51 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > It seems that the only way to reliably support mmconfig in the
> > presence of funky biosen is to detect the hostbridge and read where
> > the window is mapped from its registers. Do that for the E7520 and
> > the 945G/GZ/P/PL on x86-64 for a start.
>
>
> hi,
>
> while I like this approach a lot, I am wondering if this shouldn't be
> done as a PCI quirk instead.... it would make a lot of sense to use that
> shared infrastructure for this...

I agree in principle, but aren't the quirks running way too late
compared to that?

OG.

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