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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as well as x86_32
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:55:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270839357.1477.758.camel@groeck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBF70BC.3080809@zytor.com>

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:23 -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> [Adding Guenter Roeck as he was commenting on something writing to the
> VGA area...]
> 
> On 04/09/2010 10:22 AM, Yinghai wrote:
> > 
> > then please check this one
> > 
> > update e820 at first, and later put them resource tree, but give pci BAR chance to claim
> > the range, before assign unassigned resources.
> > 
> > in case some system doesn't have VGA, and use [0xa0000, ..] for mmio of some other pci devices.
> > 
> 
> Do we have any evidence of any such system?
> 
> Either which way, the patch looks saner...
> 
Yes, we have a system which does not have VGA and uses the VGA memory
space for another device. I don't know exactly what for, but I can find
out if it is relevant.

Guenter



  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 21:06 [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as well as x86_32 Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-07 22:45 ` Yinghai
2010-04-07 23:05   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-07 23:22     ` Yinghai
2010-04-08  3:24       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-08  4:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-08 13:04           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-09 16:04       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-09 16:44         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 17:22           ` Yinghai
2010-04-09 18:23             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 18:55               ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2010-04-09 19:55                 ` Yinghai
2010-04-09 22:21                   ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-09 22:27                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-09 22:35                       ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-09 22:44                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 22:54                           ` Yinghai
2010-04-09 23:01                         ` Yinghai
2010-04-10  0:00                           ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-10  1:10                             ` Yinghai
2010-04-10  1:43                               ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-10  1:48                                 ` Yinghai
2010-04-10  1:57                                   ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-10  2:46                                     ` Yinghai
2010-04-12 18:54                                       ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-12 19:34                                         ` Yinghai
2010-04-12 19:48                                           ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-12 19:55                                             ` yinghai.lu
2010-04-12 20:02                                           ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-12 22:32                                             ` [PATCH -v2 1/2] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:02                                               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-13 21:08                                                 ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:09                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 21:11                                                   ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:18                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 21:22                                                       ` [PATCH -v3 1/3] " Yinghai
2010-04-23 23:30                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-26 15:35                                                           ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-13 21:23                                                       ` [PATCH -v3 2/3] x86,pci, acpi: host bridge windows inherit BUSY flag from parent Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:24                                                       ` [PATCH -v3 3/3] pci: don't allocate from a BUSY bus resource Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:42                                                       ` [PATCH -v2 1/2] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map Yinghai
2010-04-13 21:58                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 22:29                                                           ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 22:39                                                             ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 22:41                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 22:58                                                               ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 23:02                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 23:03                                                                   ` Yinghai
2010-04-13 23:07                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-13 23:09                                                                       ` Yinghai
2010-04-21  5:33                                                                         ` [PATCH -v4 1/3] " Yinghai
2010-04-21  5:34                                                                           ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, resource: Add reserve_region_with_split_check_child() Yinghai
2010-04-21  5:35                                                                           ` [PATCH 3/3] x86,pci,acpi: Handle invalid _CRS Yinghai
2010-04-21 15:21                                                                             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-21 16:45                                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-21 16:59                                                                                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-21 22:33                                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-21 23:04                                                                                     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-21 23:10                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-21 23:43                                                                                         ` Yinghai
2010-04-22  0:02                                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-22  0:06                                                                                             ` Yinghai
2010-04-21 19:31                                                                           ` [PATCH -v4 1/3] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map Andy Isaacson
2010-04-23 23:05                                                                             ` [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-23 23:44                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-24  0:36                                                                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-26 12:50                                                                               ` R. Andrew Bailey
2010-04-26 15:40                                                                                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-26 18:34                                                                               ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-26 19:31                                                                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-26 20:27                                                                                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-26 20:37                                                                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-26 21:07                                                                                       ` Yinghai
2010-04-26 21:19                                                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-26 21:12                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-26 21:25                                                                                         ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-26 21:44                                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-26 21:53                                                                                             ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-26 21:59                                                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-26 22:04                                                                                             ` [PATCH -v5] reserve a0000 - 0x10000 Yinghai
     [not found]                                                                                             ` <4BD60CD4.9020708@oracle.com>
2010-04-26 22:04                                                                                               ` [PATCH -v5 1/3] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map Yinghai
2010-04-26 22:04                                                                                               ` [PATCH -v5 2/3] x86: Remove probe_roms for 32bit Yinghai
2010-04-26 22:04                                                                                               ` [PATCH -v5 3/3] x86, resource: Add reserve_region_with_split_check_child() Yinghai
2010-04-26 21:44                                                                                         ` [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END jacob pan
2010-04-13 23:03                                                                 ` [PATCH -v2 1/2] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-14  0:57                                                           ` Yinghai
2010-04-14 16:55                                                             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-14 17:21                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-14 19:25                                                             ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-14 19:27                                                               ` Yinghai
2010-04-14 19:43                                                                 ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-14 19:49                                                                   ` Yinghai
2010-04-12 22:33                                             ` [PATCH -v2 2/2] x86,pci, acpi: Inherent BUSY flag when setup_resource for root bus Yinghai
2010-04-12 22:44                                               ` Jesse Barnes
2010-04-13 21:02                                               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-04-09 20:11                 ` [PATCH] x86: Reserve legacy VGA MMIO area for x86_64 as well as x86_32 H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 20:31                   ` Guenter Roeck
2010-04-09 20:44                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 21:01                       ` Guenter Roeck
2010-04-09 22:42                       ` Alan Cox
2010-04-09 22:42                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 22:54                           ` Alan Cox
2010-04-09 22:55                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-09 22:51         ` Alan Cox
2010-04-09 22:55           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-07 23:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-08  0:19     ` Andy Isaacson
2010-04-08  5:00       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-08 21:40 ` Andy Isaacson

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