Re: [coreboot] Resource Allocation discussion

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:45 AM
> To: Stefan Reinauer
> Cc: Myles Watson; Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Resource Allocation discussion
>
> On 02.12.2008 12:36, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Myles Watson wrote:
> > > From an earlier thread with Carl-Daniel it sounded like there are
> > >
> > > fixed locations for APICs that need to be avoided.  Where should these
> > > be avoided?
> >
> > The right way to do this is create devices for them that hold fixed
> > address resources.
>
> Sounds good to me. We just have to make sure that fixed address
> resources are allowed even if they are between DEVICE_MEM_HIGH and
> 0xFFFFFFFF.

Fixed resources right now just get skipped.  They're not even considered by
the allocator.  I think it might be nice to do some sort of sanity check,
but ...

Thanks,
Myles