Re: Intel ICH - sound/pci/intel8x0.c

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 16:53:39 EST


On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 22:24, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I'd don't know enough about the LPC bridge chip to know what the
> correct answer is for this. Right now I tend to think that the PCI
> driver should own the bridge chip. If not the PCI driver then there
> should be an explicit bridge driver. I don' think it is correct that a
> joystick driver is attaching to a bridge chip given the simple fact

Nobody else currently needs to attach to it so why make life needlessly
complicated.

> that all legacy IO - joystick, PS/2, parallel, serial, etc is located
> off from that same bridge chip.
>
> Matthieu's comments about using PNP for this seem to make sense. Are
> we missing implementation of an ACPI feature for controlling these
> ports?

See previous discussion. We have isapnp, biospnp but not great acpi pnp.
None of them help because you need to deal with hotplug.

Alan

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