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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 - 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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