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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
	jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Always set prefetchable base/limit upper32	registers
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:14:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B158720.9030008@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091201205910.GB16534@lackof.org>

Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:40:03PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> ...
>>> I assumed Yinghai's objection was based on a specific problem he had
>>> seen with writing upper32 register. Bjorn asked the right question.
>>> If there isn't a specific problem, I'd prefer AW's simpler patch.
>> we just should not touch that register if the HW only support 32bit pref mmio.
> 
> Why not?
> 
> I agree the PCI-PCI spec defines how to determine if a PCI Bridge supports
> 64-bit Pref MMIO (using upper32 - or not). But spec also doesn't prohibit
> writing to a read-only register.  Writing this Read-Only register so far
> hasn't caused any problems.

if we can find out that is 32bit mmio pref, why waste cycle to write value to them?

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-30 21:51 [PATCH v2] PCI: Always set prefetchable base/limit upper32 registers Alex Williamson
2009-12-01  0:03 ` Grant Grundler
2009-12-01  0:19   ` Grant Grundler
2009-12-01  1:23     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-01  4:10     ` Alex Williamson
2009-12-01 19:55       ` Grant Grundler
2009-12-01 20:40         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-01 20:59           ` Grant Grundler
2009-12-01 21:14             ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-12-05  0:01 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-12-05 14:49   ` Alex Williamson

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