[PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks.

[Gabriele Paoloni]

Hi Jon, thanks for replying

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> From: Jon Masters [mailto:jcm at redhat.com]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space
> accessors against platfrom specific quirks.
> 
> Sorry for top-posting. A quick note that SMBIOS3 is required by SBBR so
> it can be presumed that compliant platforms will provide quirks via DMI.

Ok so you completely clarified my question 1). Many Thanks for this

Gab

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> > On Dec 21, 2015, at 09:11, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 21 December 2015, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: linux-kernel-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> >>> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Nowicki
> >
> >>> Some platforms may not be fully compliant with generic set of PCI
> >>> config accessors. For these cases we implement the way to overwrite
> >>> accessors set before PCI buses enumeration. Algorithm that
> overwrite
> >>> accessors matches against platform ID (DMI), domain and bus number,
> >>> hopefully enough for all cases. All quirks can be defined using:
> >>> DECLARE_ACPI_MCFG_FIXUP() and keep self contained.
> >>
> >> I've got a couple of comments/questions about this patch..
> >>
> >> 1) So according to this mechanism quirks would be supported only by
> >>   vendors whose BIOS are SMBIOS compliant. Now personally I am ok
> >>   with this but I don't know if this is OK in general as it would
> >>   narrow down the number of platforms that would be able to define
> >>   the quirks...
> >>   Lorenzo, Arnd what is your opinion here?
> >
> > I'd rather not see the quirks in mainline at all, and only support
> > SBSA compliant machines, or require the BIOS to work around the
> > hardware quirks differently (e.g. by trapping config space access
> > through secure firmware, or going through an AML method to be
> > defined). I'm certainly ok with making it depend on SMBIOS if we are
> going to use something like this.
> >
> >    Arnd