Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI legacy I/O port free driver (take 3) | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:42:09 +0100 |
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On Monday 27 February 2006 23:23, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Or do you have another way of avoiding unused resource allocation? > > Fix the [firmware | device load order] to allocate I/O ports first to > the hardware that only supports IO port accesses.
How should the firmware know what hardware needs io ports and what hardware doesn't? I don't think it will scale well to put long lists of PCI-IDs into their firmware.
The driver is really the natural place to put such knowledge.
-Andi
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