PCI I/O address problems on B&W G3

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> At 11:16 AM +0100 3/4/00, Michel Lanners wrote:
> >>  So it would seem to me that we need some kind of a scheme for
> >>  allocating I/O port base addresses if OF didn't do it.  I'm vaguely
> >>  familiar with the concepts behind PCI address space allocation,
> >>  having looked at it from the hardware design POV a while back, but
> >>  I'm not familiar enough with the kernel code yet to tackle this
> >>  problem (or to even be sure that I'm on the right track here).
> >
> >That should be handled by the new, 2.3 PCI code with dynamic resurce
> >allocation. I've just discovered that part, however, and am not at all
> >familiar with it. I'm RTFS'ing...
>
> Another piece of code to look at might be the Alpha arch PCI code in
> 2.2.  From what I can tell it is doing complete configuration of PCI
> by itself (apparently the firmware on Alpha boards doesn't do any PCI
> config).

Or the code in drivers/pci in current 2.3.x.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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