Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"

[Ingo Molnar]

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > NOTE! This will also consider a bridge resource at 0 to be an 
> > invalid resource (since now the alignment will be zero), which is a 
> > bit odd and makes me worry a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if some 
> > non-PC architectures have PCI bridges at zero. But maybe they should 
> > be (or already are?) marked IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED?
> 
> PCI bridges at zero is perfectly valid indeed and I'm sure we have 
> that around at least for IO space. In fact, I'm surprised you don't 
> have that on x86. Typically, things like an HT segment with a P2P 
> bridge and behind that bridge an ISA bridge could well have the P2P 
> bridge with a resource forwarding 0...0x1000 IO downstream for example 
> even on x86 no ? (I'm not -that- familiar with the crazyness of legacy 
> ISA on x86 but I've definitely seen such setup on other archs).

0..0x1000 physical memory (== bus memory on x86) is reserved to the BIOS 
as RAM in essence and that legacy will be with us for at least 100 or 
maybe 200 years ;-)

	Ingo
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