Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:34:01 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: pci_enable_msi() for everyone? |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>Honestly I can think of situations where one driver would want a bit per >>BAR, and many others would just need a single MMIO bit. Don't forget >>legacy decoding too: with -only- a bit per BAR, the driver cannot tell >>the PCI layer that disabling IO means disabling a legacy ISA region >>that's not listed in the PCI BARs. > > > VGA is too much of a special case here. I'm currently working on a VGA > arbitrer but it will need a separate API (along with a userland > interface). Maybe the kernel side of this API could be folded in that > pci_enable() thing though, I'll have to give it a though...
I was in fact thinking of IDE not VGA :)
Let's keep it simple.
Just need to make sure that, if we use an enable-by-PCI-BAR bitmap, it is still possible to let the driver make decisions about enable/disable of the IO and MMIO bits. You could have a PCI BAR bitmap and then two additional "don't touch <xxx>" bits, for example.
Jeff
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