Re: PATCH 2.5.x disable BAR when sizing

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On 20 Dec 2002 02:54:28 +0000, Alan Cox <[e-mail]> said:

  Alan> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:37, Grant Grundler wrote:
  >>  Martin, In April 2002, [e-mail] sent a 2.4.x
  >> patch to disable BARs while the BARs were being sized.  I've
  >> "forward ported" this patch to 2.5.x (appended).  turukawa's
  >> excellent problem description and original posting are here:
  >> https://lists.linuxia64.org/archives//linux-ia64/2002-April/003302.html
  >>
  >> David Mosberger agrees this is an "obvious fix".  We've been
  >> using this in the ia64 2.4 code stream since about August.

  Alan> We've rejected this twice already from different people.

  Alan> Nothing says your memory can't be behind the bridge and you
  Alan> just turned memory access off. Whoops bang, game over.

  Alan> And yes this happens on some PC class systems.

And yet it's OK to remap that memory?  That seems unlikely.

	--david