[U-Boot-Users] [Ticket#2007011742000232] [PATCH] Avoid assigning PCI resources from zero ad [...]

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello.

OTRS Notification Master wrote:

> inside the automatic U-Boot patch tracking system a new ticket
> [DNX#2007011742000232] was created:

> <snip>

>>If a PCI IDE card happens to get a zero address assigned to it, the
>>Linux IDE
>>core complains and IDE drivers fails to work.  Also, assigning zero to a
>>BAR
>>was illegal according to PCI 2.1 (the later revisions seem to have
>>excluded the
>>sentence about "0" being considered an invalid address) -- so, use a
>>reasonable
>>starting value of 0x1000 (that's what the most Linux archs are using).
>>
>>Alternatively, one might have fixed the calls to pci_set_region()
>>individually
>>(some code even seems to have taken care of this issue) but that would
>>have
>>been a lot more work. :-)
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
>>
>> drivers/pci_auto.c |    7 ++++++-
>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>Index: u-boot/drivers/pci_auto.c
>>===================================================================
>>--- u-boot.orig/drivers/pci_auto.c
>>+++ u-boot/drivers/pci_auto.c
>>@@ -34,7 +34,12 @@
>> 
>> void pciauto_region_init(struct pci_region* res)
>> {
>>-	res->bus_lower = res->bus_start;
>>+	/*
>>+	 * Avoid allocating PCI resources from address 0 -- this is illegal
>>+	 * according to PCI 2.1 and moreover, this is known to cause Linux IDE
>>+	 * drivers to fail. Use a reasonable starting value of 0x1000 instead.
>>+	 */
>>+	res->bus_lower = res->bus_start ? res->bus_start : 0x1000;
>> }
>> 
>> void pciauto_region_align(struct pci_region *res, unsigned long size)

   I wonder if this patch has ever been considered...

WBR, Sergei