MPC8343: PCI resource allocation questions
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 25 16:39:08 EST 2006
> I'm a bit confused here. If the host bridge is ignored/excluded,
> then the region size in BARs will not be allocated corresponding
> resource by the PCI subsystem, then how would other PCI devices in
> the slots could be allocated in the BAR's range? If I understand
> correctly, the PCI devices's resources are allocated based on the
> bridge resource, which is assigned statically by PCI subsystem
> using hose->mem_space and hose->io_space instead of reading it from
> the BARs. Maybe you are saying in the case the CPU is in agent mode
> and its PCI host bridge is functioning as a PCI-PCI bridge?
The problem is the host bridge shouldn't be included in BAR
assignment since its the host bridge. The problem is FSL devices
show up when they scan themselves and the kernel then tries to
allocate resources to them as if they were any other device.
you are correct, the pci subsystem is setup via the hose structure
and not by trying to read BARs on the host controller itself.
- kumar
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