Re: [RFC] [PATCH] PCI mmconfig without ACPI

[Jesse Barnes]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:32:21 -0800
Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's another attempt at decoupling the setup of memory-mapped PCI
> configuration space from ACPI.  I implemented your suggestions for
> moving the ACPI-specific code to a separate file.  I left the
> definition of struct acpi_mcfg_allocation alone, and created a new
> struct pci_mcfg_allocation.  The former is now used only for parsing
> the actual ACPI MCFG table, while the latter is used to store
> information about mmcfg regions regardless of where they came from.
> 
> (This is still an RFC; the code is pretty much untested.)
> 

I'm still a bit dubious about this; does it solve a real issue?  Or
just remove the ACPI dependency for its own sake?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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