Re: [coreboot] libpci accesses in CAR, I need a suggestion

[Marc Jones]

Tadas,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Tadas Slotkus  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found out difficulties with pci access functions in CAR as they tend
> to eat memory dynamically - with malloc calls. Any suggestions?
>
> Also I have read a bit about PCI architecture and found out that devices
> must be initialised before they respond to transactions, so is there a
> chance that chipset/board enable functions will work?
>
> Attaching my ugly tree patch for current coreboot. Problems in
> internal.c pcidev.c
>
> Thanks,
> Tadas

Sorry, I'm a little late on this question.

You should look at the coreboot early PCI access routines. I don't
think that they malloc. Knowing the location of the device can help,
then you don't have to scan for the id each time.

Marc