Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] MMCONFIG: get ready for _CBA and hot-plug host bridges

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Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 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?
> 
yes.
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