[coreboot] Discussion about dynamic PCI MMIO size on x86

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Jun 8 14:45:48 CEST 2016


  Hi,

> > There's a known failure case.
> > If someone puts in multiple PCI cards that uses more than 2GB of mmio
> > it'll break again.
> And what will happen if you need more than 3GiB MMIO space? more than
> 4GiB? ... you have to set a limit somewhere. And that can be confi-
> gurable, IMO (It doesn't have to be Kconfig. I'd actually like to see
> it in the devicetree).

Map the big bars above 4G.  Those are typically 64bit bars anyway.

cheers,
  Gerd




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