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On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 11:21, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Why are we kicking IDE devices out of ``legacy'' mode? > > Last I checked that was a very sensible mode for IDE devices to operate in. > The IRQ and pio resources are where a lot of software expects them, > and by using an isa-irq there are fewer shared interrupts. > > Plus on the few motherboards I tried it on, the pci-irq line didn't > even appear to be hooked up. In these cases I'm thinking of the > on-board IDE controller. See ac3/ac4. Having tried this approach it turns out to be a very bad idea indeed. I'm now allowing pci_enable_device with a mask of BARs that must be assigned. Thats somewhat less invasive - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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