[coreboot] [PATCH] v3 Resource allocator to v2

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu May 28 20:44:35 CEST 2009


On 28.05.2009 18:23 Uhr, Myles Watson wrote:
>>> 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.
>   

It's basically really just a fixed address memory space of a certain
fixed size that needs to be kept free by the resource allocator, very
similar to the way it needs to be done for the IOAPIC and Local APIC.

Since the PCIe BAR is part of the northbridge, I tried to tell the
resource allocator to do this in the northbridge.c code, but I couldn't
seem to figure out a way to make the (old) allocator honor it.

Stefan



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