[parisc-linux] proposed changes to dino.c

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:00:29AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 06:30, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > doesn't this also break PCI Vis-EG and FX cards setup ? On these
> > cards the ROM contains PARISC firmware, which we need.
> 
> Only if we physically need acess to the ROMs from the linux driver after
> the firmware is used...this is rarely true, even on x86.  I'm afraid I
> only have GSC Vis-EG cards, so I can't test this though.

sticon/stifb map the PCI ROM to copy out routines and fonts during
startup of the drivers.

Thomas.

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