Re: [PATCH 04/11] hpt366: write the full 4 bytes of ROM address, not just low 1 byte

From: Martin Mares
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 05:30:17 EST


Hello!

> This is one heck of a confused driver. It uses a byte write to a dword
> register to enable a ROM resource that it doesn't even seem to be using.

Once upon a time when I was the PCI maintainer, I was arguing with Andre
Hedrick about this one and he kept asserting that enabling the ROM is
necessary to make the chip work. Not that I believe it :)

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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