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SubjectRe: New resources - pls, explain :-(
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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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