Re: [Patch 1/1] x86 pci: Add option to not assign BAR's if notalready assigned

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 14 May 2010 16:20:45 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/14/2010 03:47 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > 
> > Wow and they're using cards that want to use I/O space?  Funky.  It's
> > too late to get this into 2.6.34, but that can't be what you were
> > expecting... I don't see a problem with getting something like this in
> > for 2.6.35.
> > 
> 
> Most cards on the market provide I/O BARs as a convenience to legacy
> BIOSes; they don't need the I/O BAR functionality from inside a
> full-featured OS.  There are a few, key, exceptions, mainly in the form
> of legacy-interface devices like UARTs and VGA (note that VGA has its
> own routing bits and is therefore unaffected by this problem.)

Yeah, it's the "legacy" part that I'm questioning.  I'm just lamenting
that it's dying off so slowly...

And yes, VGA is an unfortunate standard.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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