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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Linux MIPS PCI resource sanity check
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:49:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B6BFD4.5050404@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802161139.10791.mb@bu3sch.de>

Michael Buesch wrote:

> There's a sanity check in pcibios_enable_resources() that looks like this:

> 	r = &dev->resource[idx];
> 	if (!r->start && r->end) {
> 		printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Device %s not available because of resource collisions\n", pci_name(dev));
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 	}
> 
> What is this check actually doing?

   It makes sure that a PCI resource is allocated (base of 0 means that it's 
unallocated due to previously detected resource conlict (or some other reason).

> It triggers for me on a BCM4318 device which is behind a BCM4710 PCI bridge.
> r->start is 0 and r->end is 0x1FFF when this triggers.
> If I simply comment out that check the device is detected correctly
> and seems to initialize just fine.

    No, that failnig resource should be relocated.

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-16 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-16 10:39 Linux MIPS PCI resource sanity check Michael Buesch
2008-02-16 10:49 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2008-02-16 10:55   ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-16 23:35   ` Andrew Sharp
2008-02-17 11:19     ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 13:55     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-19 15:30   ` Ralf Baechle
2008-02-19 15:51 ` Ralf Baechle

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