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SubjectRe: 2.3.99-pre3 pcmcia cardbus patch, PCI questions
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:10:36 +0100, 
Martin Mares <mj@suse.cz> wrote:
>About expansion ROM's themselves:
>
> I don't believe it can make a difference -- unless you're writing your
>own program which really runs the firmware in the ROM, there is nobody who
>could use the contents of the ROM.

The pcmcia cardbus code reads the rom to extract CIS data. So yes, we
need to run the firmware.

>Also, you can easily check it by
>specifiying "pci=rom" on the kernel command line which makes the kernel
>assign address space to all the ROM's.

pci=rom only assigns address space, it does not activate it. The
RBEM56G rom address was being assigned but reading the rom got 0xff.

> Also, it is NOT possible to enable the ROM's by default.

In that case we need a PCI routine to explictly activate the expansion
rom so pcmcia can read it, and another routine to explicitly disable it
afterwards.


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