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DateWed, 26 Mar 2008 23:30:41 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > PCI bridges at zero is perfectly valid indeed and I'm sure we have 
> > that around at least for IO space. In fact, I'm surprised you don't 
> > have that on x86. Typically, things like an HT segment with a P2P 
> > bridge and behind that bridge an ISA bridge could well have the P2P 
> > bridge with a resource forwarding 0...0x1000 IO downstream for 
> > example even on x86 no ? (I'm not -that- familiar with the crazyness 
> > of legacy ISA on x86 but I've definitely seen such setup on other 
> > archs).
> 
> 0..0x1000 physical memory (== bus memory on x86) is reserved to the 
> BIOS as RAM in essence and that legacy will be with us for at least 
> 100 or maybe 200 years ;-)

ah i was fixated on ioremap-ed memory resources - the PIO space is quite 
colorful indeed.

	Ingo
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