busmaster/latency for video

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Michel Lanners wrote:
> OF itself doesn't enable any memory or IO region; it's the
> device-specific init code (which might be on-board for PCI cards, or in
> OF for motherboard devices).
> 
> There are, however, a few things OF does for _every_ PCI device, among
> which enabling bus mastering and assigning memory and/or IO resources.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
assigning some memory and/or IO resources? Or is this only the case in the
Longtrail-OF-which-is-better-than-Apple-OF-except-maybe-for-assigning-resources
case?

Greetings,

						Geert

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