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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:24:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EC3F8D.4040702@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.lPg6OSzX+f6jdXK1ZF0rlIhZok4@ifi.uio.no>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 9/14/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> It's not impossible at all. In fact I'm quite sure (Jesse can confirm)
>> that in the case of the board he was using, it was an add-in graphics
>> card where he saw this problem.
>>
>> The fact is that in the case of MMCONFIG overlap with PCI BARs, which
>> one takes priority is completely undefined. In the case of this Intel
>> chipset, clearly the PCI Express device connected to the northbridge had
>> higher decode priority than the MMCONFIG aperture.
> 
> can you relocate the MMCONFIG above RAM range? for example 512G...

On some chipsets that might be possible, however I think that on the 
Intel ones it's not possible to move it above 4G. And in any case this 
would require chipset-specific knowledge, which we would rather not have 
to need.

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca
Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/


       reply	other threads:[~2007-09-15 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-09-15 20:24           ` Robert Hancock [this message]
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2007-09-14  3:32           ` [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection Robert Hancock
2007-09-14 11:14             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-14 11:33               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-14 14:30               ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-14 15:29                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-14 23:53                   ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-15  5:55                     ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-16 11:13                     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-16 17:34                       ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-17  9:20                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-16 19:52                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-17  9:31                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-17 14:30                           ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-17  1:21                       ` Shaohua Li
2007-09-18  9:53                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-19 21:34                           ` Jesse Barnes
2007-09-16 20:06             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-16 23:37               ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-17  0:21                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]           ` <fa.0Edi0qLTdvqVnuoDAebaTVz1jEM@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]             ` <fa.sq+NimBnzGB2syLmvcIGOvDkixI@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]               ` <fa.G9DPndNUxuPi5LrUTOL4uPFshnc@ifi.uio.no>
2007-09-26 23:01                 ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-27  0:40                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-27  2:14                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-13  6:21 Shaohua Li
2007-09-13  7:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-13  7:24   ` Shaohua Li
2007-09-13  7:55     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-13  9:53       ` Greg KH
2007-09-13 11:16         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-13 12:00           ` Greg KH
2007-09-16 20:01           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-17 10:22             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2007-09-17 20:30               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-18  9:54                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky

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