Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] Split VGA default device handler out of VGA arbiter

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On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 10:47 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> So if ARM64 doesn't have these PCI legacy resources, does that mean an
> ARM64 host bridge cannot generate these legacy addresses on PCI?  That
> is, there's no host bridge window that maps to those PCI addresses?
> That seems like a curious restriction on host bridges, but I guess it
> would be possible.

It's rather common. For example on POWER8:

 - There is no IO space at all

 - We configure the 32-bit MMIO window to be around 3..4G (to avoid
overlapping with DMA space below it).

So we effectively have no path to the legacy areas, and that hasn't
been a problem so far.

Cheers,
Ben.
 
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