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On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:07 +0000, Alan Cox 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). On a PC system 0x00-0xFF are motherboard resources (sometimes chipset,
some even swallowed by the CPU in certain cases) so 0 as disabled is sort
of safe but as shown by the pci_enable_device_bars replacement code - not
a good idea neccessarily.
A lot of driver code does assume 0 == unavailable/off/disabled including large chunks of serial, ata, ide and probably other subsystems. True, and we do try to avoid allocating resources at 0 most of the time, but it happens, and in the case of bridges, it can make somewhat sense (more in fact than for devices I'd say). Cheers, Ben. | ||||||||||
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