Re: [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:29:36 +1100


> Hopefully this patch should solve most problems with probing the BARs.
> The changes are quite minimal as everything still is done in one pass.
> - Added another level of fixups (PCI_FIXUP_EARLY), called with only
> device/vendor IDs and class code filled in, before sizing the BARs.
> - pci_read_bases won't probe the BAR if the respective resource has
> non-zero flags.
>
> This allows to implement numerous alternative probing methods for
> particular architecture/device/BAR. Some of possible variants:
> get information from firmware and don't touch the BAR at all;

This sounds useful on ppc64 where firmware does a good job of setting
up the BARs.

Anton
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