Re: PATCH: PCI changes for pre-2.3.16-1

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:34:06 -0700

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> These are not x86-isms, this code works well on any architecture
> where the bus ranges are set up by firmware. This is the same philosophy
> as we already had for base addresses and IRQ's -- the generic code
> expects everything is set up right, but gives arch-specific routines
> a chance to change it as needed.

Unfortunately, I can't trust my firmware farther than I can spit.

> I agree that the pci_read_bridge_bases function does nothing useful
> on architectures doing their own address assignments, but at last
> it doesn't do any harm :)

I suppose not... It means another pass over the tree to widen the
resources of the bridges before I can allocate device resources
properly.

r~

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