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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>,
	Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM/ARM64 PCI_PROBE_ONLY platforms
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:06:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160129230645.GG12965@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569FB210.9090605@codeaurora.org>

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:13:04AM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 1/20/2016 11:04 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > 
> > We want to get rid of PCI_PROBE_ONLY on ARM/ARM64:
> 
> For platforms that does not have UEFI BIOS, it makes sense to remove the probe only
> option as the firmware is not doing anything.

I don't understand this statement.  It sounds like you mean "non-UEFI
BIOS firmware doesn't assign PCI BARs", but that's not true, so you
must mean something else.

> For server like arm64 platforms, the behavior should be identical to
> x86 world. 

> The UEFI BIOS sets up the resources, kernel uses the resources.

Is there actually a requirement that a UEFI BIOS assign resources to
PCI BARs?   I know that historically, x86 BIOS has set up most or all
PCI BARs.  But I thought there was something in UEFI that relaxed
that, so it would only have to program BARs for the boot and console
devices it actually needed.  But I can't find a spec reference either
way.

Bjorn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-29 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20 16:04 [RFC] ARM/ARM64 PCI_PROBE_ONLY platforms Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-01-20 16:13 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-01-20 18:10   ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-01-20 18:15     ` Sinan Kaya
2016-01-29 23:26       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-01-22 16:28     ` Phil Edworthy
2016-01-25 17:51       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-01-28 17:27       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-01-29 12:02         ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-01-29  6:32       ` Pratyush Anand
2016-01-29 23:25     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-02-01 16:28       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-01 21:19         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-01-29 23:06   ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2016-01-30  0:14     ` Sinan Kaya
2016-01-30 13:30       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-01-30 17:51         ` Okaya
2016-02-01 15:25         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-01 21:12           ` Bjorn Helgaas

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