Re: [coreboot] [patch 16/16] Ranges unavailable for PCI BARs should bemarked as reserved in the E820 memory map, in case the OS wants to change the BARs.

[Scott Duplichan]

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From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Tobias Diedrich
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 06:47 AM
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Cc: Rudolf Marek; Tobias Diedrich
Subject: [coreboot] [patch 16/16] Ranges unavailable for PCI BARs should bemarked as reserved in the E820 memory map,in case the OS
wants to change the BARs.

]Linux also needs the MMCONF area to be reserved either in E820 or
]as an ACPI motherboard resource or it will not enable MMCONFIG
]and the extended pcie configuration area will be unaccessible:
]
]This patch adds the IORESOURCE_RESERVE flag to the APIC and MMCONF
]resource flags to do this.
]I also added a new resource for the mapped bios rom area just below 4GB.
]I'm not sure if the choice for the index parameter of new_resource()
]is correct though.
]Note that the bios rom decode is enabled in
]src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c
]for the whole 4MB area (even though the comment says 1MB).

Thank you Tobias. To be even more conservative, the upper 5 MB of the
first 4GB can be reserved for flash memory. This is because many LPC
flash chips place the jedec ID register of the boot device at address
ffbc0000.

Thanks,
Scott