[coreboot] Subtractive Resources

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 20:28:37 CET 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Jones [mailto:marcj303 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: Myles Watson; ron minnich
> Cc: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Subtractive Resources
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> 
> > From: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich at gmail.com]
> 
> > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Myles Watson wrote:
> > >
> .....
> > > Marc made the case that things such as superio should not even be
> > > "under" the lpc in the dts, since they stand "outside" the tree in
> > > some sense. He argued that we should instead put them at top level.
> > > There is merit to his argument. This would simplify the lpc code as
> > > well.
> >
> > I think it's fine to have the lpc define resources since that's who
> > implements them, but I like the idea of the resource being visible from
> the
> > domain (maybe not outside the tree.)
> >
> 
> I think you either have a separate legacy/subtractive/isa/lpc domain or it
> needs to be under the isa/lpc pci device. What I didn't really like was
> that it was uncontained in the domain.

I agree.

> It was just sitting at the top
> level pci bus. BUT that is just a nit. Documented correctly etc I could
> live with it.

Let's try to put it in the right place.  I don't think we want to wait until
v4 :)

Thanks,
Myles





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