Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:54:36 +0200 | From | "Emilio G. Cota" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel |
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Martyn Welch wrote: > There is a further device situated between the two. > > How do you now protect the registers of this device from > > > accidental/malicous/buggy behaviour from your board, since > this region of the VME bus is now enabled for transfers > in the PCI IO Mem space?
The kernel is not designed to work with buggy hardware--that would be insane, we've got more than enough dealing with our own bugs. However when there's no other solution (e.g. hardware can't be fixed for whatever reason), fixes on a per-case basis may be applied.
E.
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