Anything?

Gabe

Ali Saidi wrote:
> At least in Alpha configuring the root bus wasn't required. This could  
> be different in x86 since alpha just had a fixed mapping in memory  
> space, and x86 might not (but since there is so much space in 64 bit  
> linux it seems like it would). I can't look at the minute, but I'll  
> poke around later today and see if I un-earth anything that might be  
> helpful.
>
> ali
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Gabe Black wrote:
>
>   
>>    Hi everybody. I'm currently trying to twist Linux's arm into
>> recognizing and configuring the PCI IDE controller, and the thing I'm
>> stuck on right now is I can't figure out how the IO resources of the
>> root bus are assigned. I found a function for child busses which is
>> bases off of the IO base and IO limit registers in the bridge,  
>> something
>> I hoped would be true of the root bus as well. It looks like something
>> somewhere is supposed to extend the kernel's tree of "resource"  
>> objects
>> to allocate the space the PCI bus responds to, but either that's never
>> happening or for some reason the kernel is losing track of it. One  
>> thing
>> which may have something to do with it is that the kernel is trying to
>> configure the host bridges config registers as a device rather than a
>> bus. It might always do that, but I really don't know. There are a
>> number of tables that end up in memory that may have something to do
>> with it, but I've poked at one of those, the Intel MP table, with no
>> success. There's still the DMI table and the ACPI tables, but I'd
>> hesitate to assume that's the problem. Any help would be appreciated
>> since grepping for "resource" isn't getting me too far.
>>
>> Gabe
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