PCI resources above 4GB

Steven Newbury steve at snewbury.org.uk
Sat Apr 14 11:05:56 PDT 2012


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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"
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