Allocateing resouces for PCI expansion roms... (was 440bx VGA probs)
Li-Ta Lo
ollie at lanl.gov
Wed Sep 8 11:17:01 CEST 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 09:17, Richard Smith wrote:
> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>
> I'm changing the subject to something more specific.
>
> >>think is the "right" way then I'm game. And if someone will guide me through
> >>what needs to be done in the PCI allocation stuff I'll give it a whirl but at
> >>first blush that PCI allocation stuff appears fairly complex.
> >
> > For V1, we're not too worried about pretty. I'll try to work up an example
> > for you.
>
> Dude, you've got plenty to do.... A few rough explanations on whats
> going on may be all I need.
>
> I dug through the PCI code last night and I seem to be getting the jist
> of how it goes. I don't quite yet grok the actual allocation "scheme"
> but the magic seems to be happening in pci_set_resource() in linuxpci.c
> and compute_allocate_resource in newpci.c.
>
> Neither of these seem to understand expansion roms. What resource flags
> will be set for a device with expansion roms? MEM? but with perhaps
> with IORESOURCE_SHADOWABLE? I don't see anything specific to expansion
> roms.
>
I don't think either V1 or V2 can do expansion ROM. It is the first
thing on my todo list for porting testbios into LB.
> The red book so far hasn't been much help. Or I just haven't found the
> right section. Eric (or anybody else): where did you get your info when
> you re-factored all this code?
>
What's red book ?
Ollie
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