[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [BUG] [Seabios] PCI 64bit BARs on Win2008 - unable to start the device. (ACPI lacks the _DSM method)
Alexey Korolev
alexey.korolev at endace.com
Wed Dec 14 05:30:23 CET 2011
Hi,
>>
>> It shouldn't be that hard to add the latter though. seabios needs two
>> more pci_region_type (PCI_REGION_TYPE_MEM_64 and
>> PCI_REGION_TYPE_PREFMEM_64) to track and map 64bit bars separately. And
>> a address space window where it can map 64bit bars to.
> Right. This is a thing I'm thinking about now. I seems that the
> specifying 0x0 address in 64bit BARS is a bad idea. At least older
> versions of Linux just hang as soon as requested range does not fit in
> first 4GB.
> So the only option would be specifying the particular address range.
> It seems this works for everything - yet.
I wonder if there any particular reason to separate prefetchable a
non-prefetchable memory regions in pciinit? Extra two more regions would
make code more complex.
Regards,
Alexey
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