From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Scott Murray" <scottm@somanetworks.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: PCI hotplug resource reservation
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 12:38:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10045.1028720321@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208061714560.16357-100000@rancor.yyz.somanetworks.com>
scottm@somanetworks.com said:
> However, in my quest to avoid duplicating the piles of resource
> manipulation code in the Compaq and IBM hotplug drivers, and use the
> PCI API in the fashion of the Cardbus driver, I've had to implement an
> idea mentioned to me by David Woodhouse at OLS, namely boot-time PCI
> resource reservation.
ISTR I referred to that as an evil hack.
Is there any particular reason why you can't assign random bits of address
space to cards and simply fix up the bridges accordingly so that
transactions for that range are forwarded?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 21:16 RFC: PCI hotplug resource reservation Scott Murray
2002-08-07 11:38 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-08-07 13:44 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-07 13:48 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-07 19:01 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-07 19:02 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-07 19:35 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-08 7:13 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-08 17:44 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-08 19:44 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-08 21:59 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-08 17:06 ` Greg KH
2002-08-08 17:36 ` Scott Murray
2002-08-08 18:19 ` Greg KH
2002-08-08 18:56 ` Scott Murray
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