On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:27:23PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:31:31AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > So, the problem is that the chip actually disables the PCI BAR if
> > certain switches aren't turned on and thus BIOSes are likely not to
> > reserve mmio address for the BAR. We can turn on proper switches during
> > driver initialization but we don't know how to wiggle the BAR into mmio
> > address space.
>
> Thanks for the explaination, that makes more sense. Unfortunatly I do
> not know how to do this right now :(
>
> Anyone with any ideas?
We have 'pci_fixup_early' stuff exactly for that sort of hardware.
IOW, just add a quirk routine that turns on desired mode of the
device and use DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY() for it.
The new BAR will be discovered an assigned automatically then.
Ivan.
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