Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

From: Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 20:18:13 EST


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
>
> This seems to be an artifact of some OBP implementations for PPC-
> apples in particular.
>
> It assigns both I/O and Mem addrs and IRQs, but doesn't enable
> either memory or I/O. So you have to do it for it.
>
> Yeah, but this doesn't belong in the drivers that is for sure.
>
> It belongs in arch/ppc/kernel/*pci*.c
>
> This is precisely the kind of compat stuff which should be fixed up in
> the arch-specific PCI support code.

I couldn't agree more.

However- I can only write the bits for my driver and maybe *suggest* stuff to
the PPC maintainers (I'm relatively new to having a PPC to play with).

-matt

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