Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PnP BIOS -- bugfix; update devlist on setpnp | From | Thomas Hood <> | Date | 17 Oct 2001 16:58:33 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 12:04, Gunther Mayer wrote: > i2c-piix4 has to be taught to ignore PNP0c0x reservations. > > PNP0C02 means "mainboard resource" and obviously i2c-piix4 > would like to use it, so it should make use of it's knowledge. > > As "mainboard resouce" is very generic we must reserve it > to protect against mapping other addresses over it.
Your approach would work. But ...
Alan has said that the thing to do is mark these resources as extant but unused. I presume one does this by calling request_resource with appropriate flags [un]set.
Thomas
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