PCI resource assignment

Daniel Jacobowitz drow at false.org
Tue Jun 6 05:59:35 EST 2000


On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:42:02AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>   - I don't know what to do with the code marked with
>
> 	Don't touch IDE controllers and I/O ports of video cards!
>
>     Perhaps we do need to touch IDE controllers on PPC? I don't have IDE
>     devices connected to the IDE interface in my LongTrail, so I don't know.
>     AFAIK the IDE interface does work without fiddling with the PCI resources
>     on other LongTrails, but that could be caused by the different OF in those
>     boxes (that different OF does assign other missing resources, unlike mine).

My experience is that we need to touch IDE cards without Open Firmware
ROM.  I currently have a card that needs this; I have a hideous local
hack in my kernel to enable it.

>

Dan

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