Re: PCI PM: Restore standard config registers of all devices early

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 22:31:19 EST


On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 12:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Note how the PCI layer (currently) only saves the low _16_ dwords of
> > config space (64 bytes). The radeonfb code that did it by hand saved the
> > whole 64 dwords (256 bytes). It _probably_ doesn't matter, but..
> >
> > The reason the PCI layer only does 64 bytes is that that was the really
> > old PCI config space model - the rest was undefined and apparently a few
> > cards reportedly even crashed when accessing it (but who knows, that may
> > be urban folklore).
> >
> > But if that patch works for you, it's clearly already better than _not_
> > applying the patch, so..
>
> Radeons don't do much with config space... the worst we may miss I
> suppose is subsystem vendor/device... Maybe I'll add something to
> explicitely save and restore it or X might get upset. I'll have a look.

Actually, subsystem stuff is below 0x40 so it should be fine too.

Cheers,
Ben.


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