Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Russell King wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik writes:
> > > > For example, S3 cards typically use:
> > > >
> > > >  0x0102,  0x42e8,  0x46e8,  0x4ae8,  0x8180 - 0x8200,  0x82e8,  0x86e8,
> > > >  0x8ae8,  0x8ee8,  0x92e8,  0x96e8,  0x9ae8,  0x9ee8,  0xa2e8,  0xa6e8,
> > > >  0xaae8,  0xaee8,  0xb2e8,  0xb6e8,  0xbae8,  0xbee8,  0xe2e8,
> > > >  0xff00 - 0xff44
>
> If XFree86 not fbdev is using the hardware, you can always have a stub
> driver that does nothing but reserve the ports.  Remember, too, that the
> ports claimed depend on register settings in the video card and PCI
> config space..

I wish.  Unfortunately, ones of this nature tend to be rather fixed.  No amount
of config space twiddling will move them.  However, as someone else pointed out,
x86 gets around this problem by only allowing IO ports to be allocated in the
(addr & 0x0300) == 0 range, thereby avoiding the problem.
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