On 08/08/13 10:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:57:39AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
(3) mmconf xbar start (MCFG, q35 only, at 0xb0000000 now). (4) pmbase (FADT, at 0xb000 now).
Especially 3+4 tend to be compile-time constants in the firmware as they are needed very early in the setup process.
So we don't need them in pci-config, just stick constant in ACPI.
I don't want them be constant. I want allow the firmware pick them. Our mmconfig xbar is 256M and can handle 256 busses. I'd like to have the option to reduce that to 64M and place it somewhere else.
Also coreboot and seabios use different values for pmbase. coreboot on q35 maps the pmbase below 0x1000. Which surely makes sense. When we don't place chipset stuff at 0xb000 we can assign the 0xb000->0xbfff window to a pci bridge instead.
Yes, this might be useful. But I don't think it's required to use linker to patch ACPI tables for this - we can write ASL code to read the register back from device configuration, instead.
No, we can't, because the address is in the FADT.
cheers, Gerd