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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:18:41 +0000
From:      Norbert Koch <nkoch@demig.de>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bus device driver
Message-ID:  <4A5D82D1.8030608@demig.de>
In-Reply-To: <200907141151.29971.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <4A5B3F1B.3040207@demig.de> <200907140849.51702.jhb@freebsd.org>	<4A5CA4AA.6050307@demig.de> <200907141151.29971.jhb@freebsd.org>

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> No.  First of all, the PCI bus driver will only allocate resources for direct 
> children.  It simply passes requests up the tree for grandchildren (this is 
> how ISA devices behind a PCI-ISA bridge request resources).  In this case, 
> you will want to allocate resources for your BAR and your interrupt using 
> bus_alloc_resource() during your attach routine.  You can then either share 
> the resources directly with your children by returning your resource values 
> in your own bus_alloc_resource() method (see ppc(4) for an example of this) 
> or subdivide your resource to make new resources (the easiest way to do this 
> is probably to create a rman from your resource and then use 
> rman_reserve_resource() to sub-allocate chunks of that to your children).  
> For the interrupt resource you can just return your own resource pointer 
> directly in your bus_alloc_resource() routine. 
>
>   

Ok, that makes things a bit clearer.
Thank you for your help!



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