Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 03:16:24PM -0500, Loic Prylli wrote:
> I just realized one thing: the bar sizing code in pci_read_bases() (that
> writes 0xffffffff in the bars) does not seem to disable the
> PCI_COMMAND_MEM/PCI_COMMAND_IO bits in the cmd register before
> manipulating the BARs. And it seems nobody else ensures they are
> disabled at this point either (or am I missing something?).

Right, we don't.  Ivan and Greg are convinced that doing so can break
some machines.  

> FWIW, to partially answer your last question, Windows does disable
> mem-space and/or IO-space when sizing the bars of a device (I have some
> traces of configuration-space-access taken on a window machine for one
> of the PCI busses).

Now that contradicts some information we've been told before; can you
post those traces?  That would argue in favour of disabling memspace
when configuring BARs.

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