Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

From: Tony Camuso
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 15:27:31 EST


Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:

Use type 1 just for the first 64 bytes and tg3 will be happy. All we need
is to avoid touching BARs with mmconfig.

Ivan.

Re-thinking this ...

The problem I see with this approach is that it does not help devices
that are mmconfig-unfriendly and will not work above the 64-byte offset.

So you will be able to configure the BARS of such a device, but not be
able to do much of anything else.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/