Re: [PATCH] Register PCI host bridge resource earlier

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:20:00PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> 
> >PCI based SNI RM machines have their EISA bus behind an Intel PCI/EISA
> >bridge. So the PCI IO range must start at 0x0000. Changing that will
> >break the PCI bus, because i8259.c already has registered it's IO
> >addresses before the PCI bus gets initialized. Below is a patch,
> >which will register the PCI host bridge resources inside
> >register_pci_controller(). It also changes i8259.c to use insert_region(),
> >because request_resource() will fail, if the IO space of the PIT hanging
> >of the PCI host bridge (maybe passing the resource parent to
> >init_i8259_irqs() is a cleaner fix for that).
> 
>    First, I don't understand how PIT and PIC resources may intersect. Then, 

oops, I meant PIC resources.

> IIUC, using inert_resource() will cause PIT resource be the child of the 
> PIC resource which doesn't make sense either.

the insert_resource will make it child of the PCI resource, which makes
perfect sense, because the ISA bus is behind the PCI host bridge.

Thomas.

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