Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/25/2011 05:17 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> If the OS allocated the next 128 bytes to another device, it sounds
> like it would cause a conflict on Intel boxes.  This must be an area
> that differs between vendors.  I haven't seen a spec that mentions 256
> bytes as the required minimum MMIO size for IOAPICs, and apparently
> the AMD IOAPIC decodes 240 bytes or fewer.
> 

For what it's worth, it's probably a bad idea on x86 for the OS to
allocate addresses in the 0xFExxxxxx range...

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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