On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 06:10:22PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> >So what happens if !early_pci_allowed() but the GART is present? We'll
> >set amd_northbridges.flags |= AMD_NB_GART, but won't run any of the
> >setup code in aperture_64.c, right? Is that a valid setup?
>
> It might be a valid setup. But it would work correctly only if BIOS did the
> right thing with setting up aperture space.
>
> If !early_pci_allowed() and BIOS did not setup aperture correctly, that
> would have caused problems already.
> But it has not been an issue so far right?
I think the right question to ask is:
What are we doing when there's no GART?
So what you probably want to do is:
if (!amd_gart_present())
return -ENODEV;
*before* the compound check.
Now, if we have detected a GART, i.e., amd_gart_present() is TRUE, the
code will behave as it used to behave before.
This should be the least intrusive change going forward IMHO.
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Boris.
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