Re: [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:45:13AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:31:10AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > For example, since we do not quite deal with PCI domains yet,
> 
> I thought Bjorn Helgaas submitted "PCI Segment" support for ia64?
> Was something else missing from that? Or was that 2.4.x only?

I guess it was just a catch up with alpha, ppc and sparc. ;-)

> IIRC, lspci needs to be fixed to support this as well.

No, unless we change the API and start exporting the domain
number (pci_controller_num) to userspace. It would be a major pain
as it would break a lot of things, X server in the first place.
In-kernel representation of the PCI domains is a non-issue, really.

Ivan.