From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: divy@chelsio.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
swise@opengridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30] cxgb3: clear shadow BAR registers
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:34:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090331.203457.210552824.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401005854.15175.44595.stgit@speedy5>
From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:58:54 -0700
> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
>
> Ensure that internal shadow BAR registers are cleared on 32-bit platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Why is this a problem and why is it not possible to rely
on these being setup to zero by either the BIOS or the PCI
layer?
At best this is a PCI quirk and not something that belongs
in the driver.
I'm not applying this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 0:58 Divy Le Ray
2009-04-01 3:34 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-01 17:48 ` Divy Le Ray
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