On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:43:11 -0500

Tony Camuso  wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:36:59 -0500

> > Tony Camuso  wrote:

> >

> >

> > Just about NOBODY has devices that need the extended config space.

> > At all.

>

> The PCI express spec requires the platform to provide access to this

> space for express-compliance.

PLATFORM not OS :)

Windows isn't using it in the server space, and only in the client space it recently started

considering it.
> More devices will be using this space

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> as express becomes the dominant IO bus technology.

sure in like 2009 maybe.
> Which is why Loic's proposal and Ivan's implementation of it is so

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> elegant. It solves all these problems in one sweep, and eliminates

> the code rendered cruft by Ivan's patch. A two-fer, by my reckoning.

>

> >> In other words, for x86, I don't think we need to worry about Port

> >> IO config access ever going away at all.

> >

> > You're wrong there. Sad to say, but you're wrong there.

> >

>

> The PCI spec provides for conf1 as an architected solution. It's not

> going away, and especially not in x86 land where Port IO is built-in

> to the CPU.

again sadly you're wrong. 
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