On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:11:55AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > That is, whatever the arch code decides to use to decide whether > > resources are assigned by firmware or by the first pass assignment code > > or not and collide or not, once that phase is finished (which is the > > case when calling pcibios_enable_device(), having the resource in the > > resource-tree or not is, I believe, the proper way to test whether it's > > a useable resource. > > So should x86 adopt that collision check? Yes, and other arches as well, I believe. > I don't hear anything about > actual architecture differences that are behind this implementation > difference. On ppc64 "0" can be a valid value for resource start, as far as I know. Ivan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html