[coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM
Scott Duplichan
scott at notabs.org
Tue Dec 7 16:44:34 CET 2010
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Why does the current code for handling fixed resources allow the mmconf
>> space to get allocated to a PCI device? Function avoid_fixed_resources
>> calls function constrain_resources, which recursively searches the
>> device tree for fixed io and memory resources. The ioapic fixed memory
>> address is found and avoided during the recursive search because this
>> southbridge device is below the level where the search starts. On the
>> other hand, the mmconf fixed resource is added from the northbridge code,
>> and falls under 'APIC_CLUSTER: 0'. This device is not part of the search
>> for two reasons. One is that it is not at or below 'pci_domain 0' in the
>> device tree. Another reason is that its type is APIC_CLUSTER and not
>> PCI_DOMAIN."
> I don't see any reason not to move that resource into the northbridge
> to avoid that issue. It's a simple fix. Is there a good reason for
> having the MMCONF BAR in the APIC cluster?
This is what I was thinking. Build tested only.
Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
Thanks,
Myles
Thanks for this patch Myles.
Acked-by: Scott Duplichan <scott at notabs.org>
Thanks,
Scott
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