Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New resources - pls, explain :-( | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 1999 09:57:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> There are actually a number of BIOSes that have an option to enable > _nothing_ but the actual devices needed for booting.
Then there are non x86 machines...
> Note that on non-PC machines this tends to make more sense. It also makes > a whole lot more sense if you start thinking about hot-plug etc. You > should let the driver do a simple "pci_enable_mem()", and that's the thing > that enables the memory mapping.
For most things it is pci_enable_all() as a helper I suspect. The idea of a pci_enable/disable at card level also covers power management then
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