Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] PCI: Avoid touching non-compliant BARs

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:58:42AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Here's a proposal for dealing with these devices that have non-BAR
> registers where BARs are supposed to be.  The idea is to:
> 
>   - have an early quirk mark these devices,
>   - disable IO & MEM decoding so the devices don't consume address space
>     we don't know about, and
>   - skip BAR sizing (so the struct resources stay zeroed out)
> 
> This is basically a modification of what Andi originally proposed.  The
> difference here is that we never touch the BAR at all, and we don't have to
> add any struct resource flags, so we don't have to worry about changing any
> consumers of the struct resources.
> 
> Let me know what you think.

I tested the patch on Broadwell and it avoids the Firmware Bug messages.

Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Andi