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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram
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Igor Mammedov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:15:46 +0100 |
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:51:47 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:36:57PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > 4.1.2.
> > > MCFG Table Description
> > >
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > If the operating system does not natively comprehend reserving the MMCFG
> > > region, the MMCFG region must be reserved by firmware. The address range
> > > reported in the MCFG table or by _CBA method (see Section 4.1.3) must be
> > > reserved by declaring a motherboard resource.
> >
> > We don't do this today.
> >
> > > For most systems, the
> > > motherboard resource would appear at the root of the ACPI namespace
> > > (under \_SB) in a node with a _HID of EISAID (PNP0C02), and the
> > > resources in this case should not be claimed in the root PCI bus’s _CRS.
> >
> > Which I read as _in case it is at the root of the apci namespace_ it
> > should not be claimed in PCI0._CRS. Which makes sense.
> >
> > My laptop has it reserved in a \_SB\PCI0\LPC\SIO device instead:
> >
> > Device (LPC)
> > {
> > Name (_ADR, 0x001F0000) // _ADR: Address
> > Name (_S3D, 0x03) // _S3D: S3 Device State
> > Name (RID, 0x00)
> > Device (SIO)
> > {
> > Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C0P2"))
> > Name (_UID, 0x00) // _UID: Unique ID
> > Name (SCRS, ResourceTemplate ()
> > {
> > [ ... ]
> > Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
> > 0xF8000000, // Address Base
> > 0x04000000, // Address Length
> > )
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > cheers,
> > Gerd
> >
>
> We can try, but Igor tried to do something like this recently (
> for IO resources) and windows guests kept crashing
> unless he made holes in _CRS.
I've tried to consume ranges under piix_pm/lpc device,
there were no any indication that ranges were ever consumed.
I haven't tried to put PNP0C0P2 on PCI bus though. It might work
I just found similar code in coreboot
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg27723.html
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/01/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram,
Igor Mammedov <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: gigabyte alignment for ram, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/01/21