LongTrail PCI resource assignment

[Michel Lanners]

On  24 Mar, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace:
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000, Timothy A. Seufert <tas at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>If there was a really, really good reason to keep OF up to date
>>(like, say, if we could break back into the OF console like you can
>>on Sparcs), then it would be OK.  Otherwise it is most likely
>>unnecessary bloat, and leads to potential confusion (and bugs).  Is
>>there any such reason on ppc?
>
> After thinking a bit more about this, I beleive we could simply add a
> property to the nodes of cards for which we change the bus number,
> indicating the new linux pci dev infos. The way, we keep the "reg"
> property intact (it may be useful for rebuilding OF path).

Good idea. Fits what I said before about special code ;-)

Michel

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