Re: Reverting old hack

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:01:14 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 22 February 2010 06:28:30 am Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > It's a while since I last looked into this but here's how things afair
> > are working on a MIPS-based Cobalt system.
> > 
> > The system is based on a MIPS processor and a GT-64111 system controller.
> > Addresses within a certain CPU address range are passed to the PCI bus as
> > I/O cycles without address cycles.  Since memory is starting at CPU address
> > zero (and has to because of the processors used), that address window has
> > to get mapped somewhere else.  So a CPU access to some virtual address gets
> > translated to physical address 0xf00001f0.  The GT-64111 passes this to the
> > PCI bus as I/O port address 0xf00001f0.  Finally the VT82C586 chip which
> > only decodes the low 16 bits drops treats this as an I/O port space address
> > 0x1f0.
> 
> Yoichi, can you try the patch below?  I think this is basically the
> approach Ben suggested long ago:
>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119733290624544&w=2

It works fine with 2.6.34 queue tree.
pci.c change is already committed by Ralf.

Thanks,

Yoichi


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