On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:25:02PM -0700, yhlu wrote:
> In LinuxBIOS, We can allocate 64 bit region ( 0xfc0000000....) to the
> mellanox Infiniband card. Some range above 4G. So the mmio below 4G
> is some smaller only 128M, Otherwise need 512M. If 4 IB cards are
> used, the mmio will be 2G. For new opteron E stepping, We could use
> hareware memhole support. But if the CPU is before opteron E, We only
> can use SW mem mapping ( will lose some performance) or lose (2G RAM).
> at such case We need 64bit pref mem. We only lose 128M even four IB
> card are installed.
>
> yesterday, someone add pci_restore_bars...., that will call
> pci_update_resource, and it will overwirte upper 32 bit of BAR2 and
> BAR4 of IB card.
Hm, perhaps that change should not do this?
Dominik, care to weigh in here? That was your patch...
> So the patch make pci_restore_resource
> 1. don't touch BAR3, and BAR5, if BAR2, and BAR4 are 64 bit MEM IO
> 2. not assume BAR2 and BAR4 upper 32bit is 0 if if BAR2, and BAR4 are
> 64 bit MEM IO
thanks,
greg k-h
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