Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 16:22:43 EST


On Thursday, August 5, 2004 1:45 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> If you follow the code path of pci_assign_resource() it will program
> the ROM to appear at the newly assigned address in
> pci_update_resource(). I'd check these code paths and see if they are
> 64 bit broken. This process does work on ia32.

I think just my platform is broken (i.e. pci_assign_resource doesn't do the
right thing on sn2). I'll take a look.

> If you can read the ROM without a resource assigned it is just luck
> that everything is still in the same place as boot. If you start
> hotpluging the original ROM address could get used by another card
> since is is not actively assigned.

Right.

Thanks,
Jesse
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