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Re: Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64

From Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64
Date 2016-07-15 10:40 +0200
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On Friday, July 15, 2016 8:29:49 AM CEST Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> I observe that memory and IO space are enabled by BIOS in x86.
> 
> In ARM64 we need to call pci_enable_device form End Point to enable these resources.
> 
> Why the resource enablement is different in x86 and ARM64 ?
> 
> Please correct me if my observation is wrong.

This is a difference between systems with a BIOS and embedded systems with
a plain bootloader that ignores PCI. On an ARM64 server system with UEFI
you should expect the device to be usable too, but on an embedded system,
Linux takes the role of the BIOS.

	Arnd

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Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64 Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@xilinx.com> - 2016-07-15 10:40 +0200
  Re: Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-07-15 10:40 +0200
  Re: Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64 Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-07-15 23:50 +0200
    RE: Memory and IO space Enabling different in x86 and ARM64 Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@xilinx.com> - 2016-07-16 05:30 +0200

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