Hi Michael, On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:53:46PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > VGA adapters need to claim memory and i/o > transactions even if they do not have any > i/o or memory bars. E.g. PCI spec, page 297, > gives an example of such a device: > > Programming interface 0000 0000b > VGA-compatible controller. Memory > addresses 0A 0000h through 0B > FFFFh. I/O addresses 3B0h to 3BBh > and 3C0h to 3DFh and all aliases of > these addresses. > > While we could check for these devices and special-case them, it is > easier to fix this by enabling i/o and memory space unconditionally: > devices that do not support it will just ignore this setting.
This doesn't sound correct to me - I would think the vga option rom should enable the memory and io bars. I don't have enough knowledge to say for sure though - can someone else with knowledge in this area confirm this approach? -Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
