On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
