[parisc-linux] proposed changes to dino.c

Grant Grundler grundler at parisc-linux.org
Fri Dec 12 20:51:25 MST 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:28:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> You don't need the ROM mapped expect for reading stuff like MAC, and you
> can do that by mapping each port over the same address range.

interesting trick.
That should work nicely for the 4-port tulip especially.

Can we allocate/map only the first tulip's ROM and point the remaining
tulip's ROM_RESOURCE at the first one?

I'm worried multiple PCI devices could attempt to respond to
the MMIO transaction and fight over the bus.

PCI Hotplug makes my suggestion at bad idea to generalize
for other arches.

thanks,
grant


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