Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 04/03/07 08:14 -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:12:43PM +0000, Jordan Crouse wrote: >> >> I'll be glad to create a simple new bus type for you if you want, or I >> can look into the real solution of multiple pci drivers. The former >> will benifit only this project, while the later benifits all of the >> kernel community... > > I prefer the second option - we have gone to a lot of work to make sure > that PCI virtualization works for the Geode, and it does for the most part > (USB and audio are two good examples of that). I would like to stay true > to the PCI model if at all possible. > > I'll look into the multiple PCI driver solution as well - that seems like > the right way to go.
As do I. > > I haven't gotten into it - so I don't know how long it will take to hack > together a reasonable solution. And time is of the essence - we have > people chomping at the bit to start power management work. They don't > really *need* a working smbus and MFGPT to resume, assuming that we don't > use nohz and the display (i.e. - resume to a serial console), though I > think that people will want to go that route pretty quickly. > > Andres - its your kernel - what do you think? Do we suffer without the > smbus and MFGPT for a few weeks, or do we check in this code and revert > it later when we get a better solution? I'm fine checking it in and reverting it later, so long as it doesn't keep us from actually implementing support for having multiple PCI drivers binding to devices. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
