[coreboot] [PATCH] v3 Resource allocator to v2

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Thu May 28 18:23:27 CEST 2009


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> On 28.05.2009 17:32 Uhr, Myles Watson wrote:
>> Remaining issues:
>> 1. Right now I'm testing it with a reserved area for the IOAPIC in the
>> southbridge and a reserved area in the lpc/ISA function of the southbridge.
>>
>> The downside of this is that I have to touch every southbridge to add it.  I
>> think it is the right place, though.
>>
> Not so much of a downside, since this is a fix for a real issue, and
> puts the code where it (in my opinion) belongs.
Good.  I agree.

>> 2. Kontron will break because I removed its special case from the resource
>> allocator.  I think with the new resource allocator it will be easy to fix,
>> but I'd like a Kontron tester.
>>
> I'll be glad to test... Can you suggest a fix or give a pointer on how
> to fix this? If we can get rid of the PCIe hole handling hack, I'm all
> for checking this in.
I think there are a couple of possible fixes depending on what the
real problem is.

If the problem is that it needs to be at a fixed address, allocate it
at the top (as high as you can before the IOAPIC) of the address
space, and mark it fixed.

I guess there are too many other possibilities for why you needed to
implement it that way, but I'd be happy to help you solve the problem.

Thanks,
Myles




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