Re: [BK PATCH] I2C update for 2.6.8-rc1

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > If someone can come up with a patch that works for everyone, I'll be
> > glad to apply it.
> 
> Hmm.. Why exactly does the PCI layer re-locate the IO ports?
> 
> Afaik, ACPI requesting the region shouldn't matter. The 
> "request_resource()" should still be happy..
> 
> Ahh. I see the problem. Because the ACPI code allocates the sub-resources, 
> the request_resource thing is indeed not happy.
> 
> How about this _trivial_ change? Does that fix things for you guys? Can 
> you send the /proc/ioport output if this works out for you, just so that 
> we can see?

   Yes, this works.  Please commit.  I still have reservations about
exposing this device (that firmware owns and we can't possibly
synchronize access to), but this is a big improvement over the unusable
state w/o this change.  Here's my /proc/ioports:

0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
1000-107f : 0000:00:1f.0
  1000-107f : motherboard
    1000-1003 : PM1a_EVT_BLK
    1004-1005 : PM1a_CNT_BLK
    1008-100b : PM_TMR
    1010-1015 : ACPI CPU throttle
    1020-1020 : PM2_CNT_BLK
    1028-102f : GPE0_BLK
1100-113f : 0000:00:1f.0
  1100-113f : motherboard
1200-121f : motherboard
  1200-121f : 0000:00:1f.3
2000-2fff : PCI Bus #01
  2000-20ff : 0000:01:00.0
    2000-20ff : radeonfb
3000-30ff : 0000:00:1f.5
3400-34ff : 0000:00:1f.6
  3400-34ff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - AC'97
3800-387f : 0000:00:1f.6
  3800-387f : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Controller
3880-38bf : 0000:00:1f.5
38c0-38df : 0000:00:1d.0
  38c0-38df : uhci_hcd
38e0-38ff : 0000:00:1d.1
  38e0-38ff : uhci_hcd
3c00-3c1f : 0000:00:1d.2
  3c00-3c1f : uhci_hcd
3c20-3c2f : 0000:00:1f.1
  3c20-3c27 : ide0
  3c28-3c2f : ide1
4000-40ff : PCI CardBus #03
4400-44ff : PCI CardBus #03
4800-48ff : PCI CardBus #07
4c00-4cff : PCI CardBus #07
5000-50ff : PCI CardBus #0b
5400-54ff : PCI CardBus #0b

Thanks,

	Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab