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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com,
	gorcunov@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	evensky@dancer.ca.sandia.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Use correct size for VESA memory BAR
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:13:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E42218F.4050705@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E416449.5020205@redhat.com>

On 8/9/11 7:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 06:39 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Sasha Levin<levinsasha928@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> >  This patch makes BAR 1 16k, instead of BAR0 - which is the PIO bar.
>> >
>>
>> This changelog is missing some key information:
>>
>>   - how did you find the bug (by chance via code review or did you see
>>     some actual badness?)
>>
>>   - what practical effect (if any) did you see from this patch?
>>
>>   - what practical effect (if any) do you expect others to see from 
>> this patch?
>>
>> I suspect this patch is only for completeness/correctness but has no
>> practical effect - but that's a guess.
>>
>
> My guess would be that seabios tried to lay out the BARs and had 
> trouble fitting a 16k pio bar in the small PCI pio region.

Sasha? IIRC this fixed some issue with David's out-of-tree PCI driver?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 15:21 [PATCH] kvm tools: Use correct size for VESA memory BAR Sasha Levin
2011-08-09 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-09 16:46   ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-10  6:13     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-08-10 17:46       ` David Evensky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-11  9:04 [PATCH] kvm tools: Fix IRQ mapping Sasha Levin
2011-08-11  9:04 ` [PATCH] kvm tools: Use correct size for VESA memory bar Sasha Levin
2011-08-11  9:49   ` walimis
2011-08-11 11:55     ` Sasha Levin

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