[coreboot] PCI IO Address space over 0xffff

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 22.05.2010 20:54, Joe Korty wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:54:08PM -0400, ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> pci bridges have always rounded to 4k multiples ... it's in the very
>> earliest spec.
>>     
>
> Thanks.  It does seem that PCI-e uses more bridges than the older PCIs;
> if so that would explain the excessive spreading-out of IO port addresses
> under PCI-e.
>   

I think someone mentioned that some PCIe bridges can map IO port space
to memory space to give non-x86 systems access to IO port space (many
architectures do not have a separate IO port space).

If you manage to find such a PCIe bridge chip with mem<->IOport mapping
capability and if you can hack up Linux to use the memory accessor
functions for the devices behind such a bridge, you can work around
IOport resource space constraints. It would definitely be interesting to
see if that is possible in paractice without breaking lots of stuff.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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