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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	tom.l.nguyen@intel.com, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@topspin.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: pci_enable_msi() for everyone?
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:16:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117844169.31082.210.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A0F10D.8020308@pobox.com>


> Honestly I can think of situations where one driver would want a bit per 
> BAR, and many others would just need a single MMIO bit.  Don't forget 
> legacy decoding too:  with -only- a bit per BAR, the driver cannot tell 
> the PCI layer that disabling IO means disabling a legacy ISA region 
> that's not listed in the PCI BARs.

VGA is too much of a special case here. I'm currently working on a VGA
arbitrer but it will need a separate API (along with a userland
interface). Maybe the kernel side of this API could be folded in that
pci_enable() thing though, I'll have to give it a though...

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-04  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-03 22:45 pci_enable_msi() for everyone? Greg KH
2005-06-03 23:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-04  0:01   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-04  0:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-04  0:16       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-06-04  0:34         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-04  6:51   ` Greg KH
2005-06-03 23:36 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-06 22:58   ` Greg KH
2005-06-07  0:23     ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-07  5:19       ` Greg KH
2005-06-04  1:31 ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-04  6:48   ` Greg KH
2005-06-04  7:05     ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-04  7:18       ` Greg KH
2005-06-04  7:23         ` Dave Jones
2005-06-04 14:58           ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-06 23:01           ` Greg KH
2005-06-07  0:26             ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-07  5:22               ` Greg KH
2005-06-07  5:46                 ` Adam Belay
2005-06-07 17:43                   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-06-05 22:00         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-06 23:00           ` Greg KH
2005-06-06 23:56             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-05 19:46 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 22:55   ` Greg KH
2005-06-06 22:59     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:09       ` Greg KH
2005-06-06 23:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-06 23:10       ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:13       ` Greg KH
2005-06-06 23:53         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-06 23:56           ` Greg KH
2005-06-06 23:58           ` David S. Miller
2005-06-07  4:24       ` Grant Grundler
2005-06-07  0:18     ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-07  5:21       ` Greg KH
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2005-06-07 22:33 Nguyen, Tom L

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