Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:03:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> wonder how the probe could find out the size of is 1fff_ffff..

Heh. That's how PCI sizing works: you write all ones to the register, and 
read back the result. The low bits won't change, and that indicates the 
size.

But if _none_ of the bits change, then that simply means that the size 
will be calculated to be 0xffffffff-start.

So the sizing will "work", it will just always report that the BAR covers 
everything from start to the 4G limit.

		Linus
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