Re: [edk2-devel] 2nd OVMF question about why InitRootBridge does not set ResourceAssigned?

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/07/20 21:59, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

> (Side note: where I say "synthetic", that does not mean "easy to change"
> at all. Coming up with good 32-bit and 64-bit MMIO apertures for the
> PciHostBridgeLib instance was an arduous task. Among other things, this
> originates from the very quirky placement of the 32-bit address ranges
> on i440fx and q35 that are usable for PCI MMIO. QEMU doesn't dictate the
> apertures for the root bridges, but if you allocate an MMIO BAR from an
> inappropriate address range, you're doomed.)

A key commit regarding the above is 49edde15230a ("OvmfPkg/PlatformPei:
set 32-bit UC area at PciBase / PciExBarBase (pc/q35)", 2019-06-03).

It was very difficult to find a 32-bit PCI MMIO aperture, facing any
random guest RAM size, such that we could mark the aperture in
PlatformPei as UC with no more than the 8 variable MTRRs that QEMU provides.

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1859

Thanks
Laszlo