Re: [RFC PATCH v2] arm64: acpi/pci: invoke _DSM whether to preserve firmware PCI setup

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On Fri, 2019-06-14 at 08:12 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 08:43:19PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> wrote:
> 
> > This least to another conversation we hinted at earlier.. we should
> > probably have a way to do the same at least for BARs on ACPI
> > systems so
> > we don't have to temporarily disable access to a device to size
> > them.
> 
> The PCI Enhanced Allocation capability provides a way to do this.  I
> don't know how widely used it is, but it's theoretically possible.

Ok, I have to read about this. I haven't seen a device with that on
yet, it looks messy at a quick glance.

Can ACPI convey the information ? On powerpc and sparc64 we have ways
to read the BAR values from the device-tree created by OF when it
assigned them.

Cheers,
Ben.





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