Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:50:01 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd |
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> in old kernel, after BAR3 request_filed, pci_assigned_unassigned >> should get update resource for that... but it could find that big >> space for it.
wait, THAT BAR is 64BIT capable, So kernel should assign 64bit range to it... it request_resource fails...
> > Exactly. So what happens is that it doesn't actually re-allocate it at > all. Not that it is necessarily even possible - it's quite possible that > that field is effectively locked some way and is read-only. Without > knowing the chipset details, we can only guess.
not touch it at this time...
except Jordan could find some clue with the DOC.
YH
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