Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 17:45:39 EST


>
> Agreed. The trickier part is handling any platform devices that
> request_resource against that space. But maybe we don't need to do
> anything special; just making sure we avoid it in the PCI "BIOS" code
> as Bjorn did may be sufficient.
>

Why is that hard? If a platform device does a request_resource against
that space, it's a request for specific address space and it should be
granted.

-hpa

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