Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as wellas x86_32

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 09 2010 - 14:26:08 EST


[Adding Guenter Roeck as he was commenting on something writing to the
VGA area...]

On 04/09/2010 10:22 AM, Yinghai wrote:
>
> then please check this one
>
> update e820 at first, and later put them resource tree, but give pci BAR chance to claim
> the range, before assign unassigned resources.
>
> in case some system doesn't have VGA, and use [0xa0000, ..] for mmio of some other pci devices.
>

Do we have any evidence of any such system?

Either which way, the patch looks saner...

-hpa
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