Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection

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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:33AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > How is this a change in behavior as far as this device is concerned? If 
> > we are doing BAR sizing and moving the base address around, it's going 
> > to cause problems if you try to access the device during this time 
> > whether we disable decode or not.
> 
> True. The window is smaller tho if the upper bridge decode hasn't been
> disabled. I suppose I'll have to find a way to "pin" those devices and
> generate the BAR info from the firmware data.

The upper bridge decode only gets disabled while we size the upper
bridge's BARs.  Then we reenable it.

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