On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:33:32 -0700 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > These patches convert the table of MMCONFIG regions to a list, to > make it easier to support addition and removal of regions at run-time. > > MMCONFIG management will need to be more dynamic to support _CBA (a > PCI host bridge ACPI method that reports the MMCONFIG address), > because we will discover _CBA when we claim the host bridge, not in > the current pci_arch_init() path. > > The PCI Firmware Spec requires BIOS to use _CBA, not MCFG, to report > MMCONFIG regions of hot-pluggable host bridges. Therefore, if the > hardware and firmware support host bridge hotplug, we will encounter > _CBA even if Linux itself doesn't support hotplug. > > I changed some printk and resource name text, but otherwise, except > for any implementation errors I made, this series should have no > functional change. > > Changes from v1 to v2: > - update resource name when changing bus number range (Yinghai, > in 11/18) > Yinghai, are you ok with adding your reviewed-by or acked-by to this? -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
