Messages in this thread | | | Date | 6 Jan 2004 16:37:06 +0100 | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:37:06 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:27:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > In my opinion it would have been cleaner if the aperture had always > > an reserved entry in the e820 map. > > That does sound like a bug in the AGP drivers. It shouldn't be hard at all > to make them reserve their aperture. > > Hint hint.
No, it's a bug in the BIOS that they're not marked. But I've actually seen a BIOS that marked it and it lead to the Linux AGP driver failing (due to some interaction with how setup.c sets up resources). So the Linux driver currently even relies on the broken state.
Anyways, I already implemented reservation for the aperture for the K8 driver some time ago. And it's in your tree. But it doesn't help for finding IO holes because there could be other unmarked hardware lurking there ... Or worse there is just no free space below 4GB.
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