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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	davidm@hpl.hp.com, grundler@cup.hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:29:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030106002936.GA8584@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030105153735.A8532@jurassic.park.msu.ru>


> Hopefully this patch should solve most problems with probing the BARs.
> The changes are quite minimal as everything still is done in one pass.
> - Added another level of fixups (PCI_FIXUP_EARLY), called with only
>   device/vendor IDs and class code filled in, before sizing the BARs.
> - pci_read_bases won't probe the BAR if the respective resource has
>   non-zero flags.
> 
> This allows to implement numerous alternative probing methods for
> particular architecture/device/BAR. Some of possible variants:
> get information from firmware and don't touch the BAR at all;

This sounds useful on ppc64 where firmware does a good job of setting
up the BARs.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-06  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19 21:37 PATCH 2.5.x disable BAR when sizing Grant Grundler
2002-12-20  2:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-20  2:27   ` David Mosberger
2002-12-20  6:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20 19:50   ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-20 20:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20 21:22       ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-21 18:34       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-20 20:37     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-20 21:29       ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-20  5:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20  9:42   ` David Mosberger
2002-12-20 12:53     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-20 17:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20 18:26       ` David Mosberger
2002-12-20 19:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-21 22:06         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-21 22:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-22  7:15             ` Paul Mackerras
2002-12-22 15:03               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-12-22 19:21                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-23  0:29                   ` Paul Mackerras
2002-12-23 15:26                     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-05 12:37                     ` [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-06  0:29                       ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2003-01-06  4:14                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-06  5:22                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-06 10:31                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-06 11:32                           ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-06 22:01                             ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-06 19:45                           ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-07 17:05                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-07 17:46                               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-07 20:17                               ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-08 14:47                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-08 22:34                                   ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-06 15:33                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-06 21:52                           ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-06 23:19                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-07  0:13                               ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-07 12:33                                 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-07 17:27                                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-07 18:46                                     ` Alan Cox
2003-01-07 17:44                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-08 16:55                                     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 17:46                                     ` [patch 2.5] 2-pass PCI probing, generic part Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 17:52                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-09 22:09                                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 22:16                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-09 22:26                                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-10  3:49                                               ` Alan Cox
2003-01-09 23:19                                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 23:35                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-10  1:09                                                 ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-10  7:56                                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-10 19:00                                                     ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-10 21:42                                                       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-10 23:07                                                         ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-11 19:39                                                         ` Scott Murray
2003-01-12  7:19                                                           ` Greg KH
2003-01-13  6:28                                                             ` Scott Murray
2003-01-10 13:35                                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-14 16:39                                                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 18:36                                       ` David Mosberger
2003-01-09 19:52                                       ` Grant Grundler
2003-01-09 22:40                                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 17:48                                     ` [patch 2.5] 2-pass PCI probing, hotplug changes Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-09 17:51                                     ` [patch 2.5] 2-pass PCI probing, i386 USB quirk Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-07 17:12                                 ` [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-01-07 17:06                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-22 19:51               ` PATCH 2.5.x disable BAR when sizing Linus Torvalds
2002-12-22 19:57                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-22 10:38             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-22 18:39               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-22 19:47                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-22 21:05                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-20 18:50       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-12-20 19:11         ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-06 10:31 [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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