On 8 Oct 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The current device resource assignment code should cope with static > resource assignments, so hopefully it should be a matter of plugging > hard codes into the device tree.
no, greg and I will be talking to you about this. There is a problem with that code, which I have alluded to, in that you can not (in the current system) do device assignments etc. before pci enumeration, and it is essential that you be able to do that. > Although looking at that code there is another issue. You are using > dev_find_device in vt8231.c inappropriately. dev_find_device should > be virtually unnecessary in the freebios2 tree. Except when you are > very carefully using dev_find_device will fail to handle multiple > instances of a device. This is a very bad example to set when > doing things properly causes everything to work transparently. legacy code. Has to get fixed. Examples of proper usage welcomed. Although this actually points out a problem with the dynamic tree: it handles complex cases well, simple cases poorly. All I want to do is get into that device BEFORE pci enumeration and set some default values. You can't do that in the current scheme. > This is also a limitation in FILO that it is scanning for devices only > using the legacy port addresses. Using those addresses is great but this > problem would have remained hidden if FILO did a scan through pci devices > like etherboot does. yes. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
