[coreboot] Resource Allocation discussion

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 02.12.2008 14:59, Myles Watson wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net]
>> 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 ...
>   

A nice warning message for overlapping resources would be helpful.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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