Re: [RFC][PATCH] PCI bridge driver rewrite (rev 02)

From: Adam Belay
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 19:16:43 EST


On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:43 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Monday, March 7, 2005 3:39 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > How is sys/bus/platform/* going to work for IA64 machine line SGI SVN?
> > SVN supports multiple simultaneously active legacy spaces, that means
> > that there can be multiple floppy, serial, ps/2, etc controllers.
> > Should these devices be hung off from the bridge they are on?
>
> Probably, though no one in their right mind is going to put anything like that
> on these machines (sn2 btw) :). VGA cards will hopefully be the only devices
> of this type that we'll have installed.
>
> Jesse

Well, if the system supports ACPI, then in theory it could have any
number/configuration of legacy devices, and we'd know everything about
them including exactly where to put them in the device tree. However, I
agree that legacy hardware will be less common in this architecture.

Adam


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