Re: PCI memory BAR assigned by u-boot not honored when using recent kernel

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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Karicheri, Muralidharan
>>There is no guarantee that the kernel will keep the BAR assignments done by firmware or
>>a bootloader.  Usually the kernel *does* keep them, as long as they are valid, but you
>>can not rely on that.

Not sure what arch in your case.

You need to have code like pcibios_resource_survey() in x86 to
checking and reserve resource from firmware.

Also firmware need to make sure mmio assignments are valid otherwise
kernel will reject and reassign a new one.

Thanks

Yinghai
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