Re: More linker magic..

David Hinds (dhinds@zen.stanford.edu)
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:16:25 -0700


On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 08:52:54PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>
> This is exactly what I've proposed, but Linus insisted on keeping
> the name list, so I've to surrender. Anyway, I'll write a simple
> script generating the kernel ID list from the pci.id file, so that
> it will be up to date.

sob...

At least make the address part look like "<bus>:<slot>.<fn>", for
consistency's sake.

> I think this should be handled by the drivers itself since such
> additional resources always correspond to legacy I/O ports and the
> driver usually needn't know about which PCI devices really responds
> to these ports.

This actually wasn't the situation I had in mind. I was thinking of
things like the 440BX/ZX fixup I sent you a few weeks ago, where the
bridge has windows for AGP that aren't defined with base registers.

-- Dave

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