PCI resources above 4GB

Steven Newbury steve at snewbury.org.uk
Sat Apr 14 11:42:27 PDT 2012


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On 14/04/12 19:05, Steven Newbury wrote:
> On 14/04/12 18:37, Steven Newbury wrote:
>> On 12/04/12 17:40, Steven Newbury wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 17:07:33 BST, Yinghai Lu 
>>> <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Steven Newbury 
>>>> <steve at snewbury.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, that fixed it! :) I had a similar patch I've been 
>>>>> working on but I had my fix in the wrong place!
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the working case, initially the BIOS has set GMA to 
>>>>> within the low system DRAM 0xC0000000 obviously invalid. 
>>>>> This conflict is detected and it's relallocated to 
>>>>> 0x12000000.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've attempted to modify probe.c to disable 64-bit BARs not
>>>>>  allocated above 4G so they get reallocated above when 
>>>>> possible later.  It seemed to work, but again broke GMA 
>>>>> despite the BAR originally containing an invalid address
>>>>> as mentioned above, it seems for some reason something is 
>>>>> different when the conflict is detected and rellocated, 
>>>>> compared to disabling it early then allocating a valid 
>>>>> value..?
>>>>> 
>> I've created a new quirk utilising an extra PCI resource flag to 
>> force reallocation of the resource.  It's the first approach
>> I've had any success at.  It does work.  Only "Intel Page Flush"
>> now gets allocated @0xe0000000!
> 
> 
> Hopefully this should fix "Intel Flush Page"
Need to export pci_bus_alloc_resource_fit for intel-gtt.
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