On 05/14/2010 04:33 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > As for BIOS coordination for dynamic reallocation, yeah there'd be some > of that. I think the basic principles would be: > 1) use BIOS allocations wherever possible > 2) get an accurate list of available resources from the BIOS for > potential remapping later > 3) allocate resources for BARs and devices as late as possible (e.g. > at driver bind time) to avoid allocating more than we need > > But that's a good chunk of work, and as we've seen, PCs in particular > are really sensitive to having resources moved around too much, so step > (2) is probably the hardest part. > The real problem that I see, as outlined before, has nothing to do with the BIOS, but rather the interdependencies between resources. -hpa -- 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
