Re: New PCI code for Alpha

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:22:38 +0200

> Since pcibios_* functions are only called at driver initialisation we don't
> need to care how fast they are. And it would provide an incentive for driver
> authors to move to the new interface that way. :-)

No, pcibios_* functions can be also called from an interrupt to check
for device status. Anyway, I agree these few critical references can be
changed with little effort.

Have a nice fortnight

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