Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel

[Martyn Welch]

Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Martyn Welch wrote:
>   
> > There is a further device situated between the two.
> >     
> > > How do you now protect the registers of this device from
> > >       
> > > > accidental/malicous/buggy behaviour from your board, since
> > > >         
> > this region of the VME bus is now enabled for transfers
> > in the PCI IO Mem space?
> >     
>
> The kernel is not designed to work with buggy hardware--that
> would be insane, we've got more than enough dealing with our
> own bugs. However when there's no other solution (e.g.
> hardware can't be fixed for whatever reason), fixes on a
> per-case basis may be applied.
>
>   
Apart from : not mapping regions of the VME bus that you are not using.

Martyn

> E.
>   


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