[coreboot] Resource allocator in v2
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sat May 9 00:40:27 CEST 2009
On 09.05.2009 00:26, Myles Watson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net]
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 4:21 PM
>> To: Myles Watson
>> Cc: 'coreboot'
>> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Resource allocator in v2
>>
>> On 09.05.2009 00:16, Myles Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have the stomach for reviewing patches so I can bring the
>>> resource allocator from v2 to v3?
>>>
>>>
>> Bring the resource allocator fro v2 to v3? Wasn't the original v3
>> resource allocator a copy of the v2 allocator? In that case, reverting
>> all resource allocator patches in v3 should fix this. Hmmm. Not good.
>>
>
> Sorry. v3 to v2. Long day.
>
Oh lucky day. v3 to v2 makes me happy. :-)
>>> My board is broken and it's harder to debug because of the mutual
>>>
>> recursion.
>>
>> Which board is this?
>>
> Tyan s2892. Adding devices changes the order in which the resources are
> enumerated and breaks a lot of weird things.
>
>
>>> The other alternative is for me to just keep a monster patch on my
>>>
>> stack,
>>
>>> but then it will never get merged.
>>>
>>>
>> I'd review, but my resource allocator knowledge is seriously lacking. I
>> gave up while trying to figure out reasonable device trees for HT+PCI
>> and resource inheritance.
>>
>
> I don't think it's that bad if we take out the mutual recursion. In my
> opinion that makes it nearly impossible to follow.
>
OK, I'll try to review, but please don't trust them alone.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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