From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Murray Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:36:32 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:02:31PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote: > > Unfortunately, my take on the scheme used to reserve space for CardBus > > bridges was that it only works on platforms that use the setup-*.c code > > to do their complete PCI subsystem initialization. On platforms like > > x86, where the BIOS configures all the devices, something like my patch > > is needed to fixup things to handle the desired reservation. I'm not > > finished getting things ported to 2.5 yet, I'll post a patch ASAP once > > I've got everything workin. If you're keen on devising an alternative > > method, check put my old patch against 2.4.19 at: > > I've been working on this in 2.5 this week - I've got something working, > Alan's happy with the concept as far as the resource allocation goes. > > The cardbus reservation method is actually flawed in setup-*.c if you > want to get rid of the stuff in yenta.c - again, I've fixed this lot > in my 2.5 tree already, and the patch is pending an update to the x86 > code to do what yenta.c was doing (only setup bridge resources of the > ones already programmed are bad/wrong.) This sounds like it could remove the need for my manually specified resource reservation scheme, does your code currently support arbitrary bridges, i.e. non-CardBus? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Murray SOMA Networks, Inc. Toronto, Ontario e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com