cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci pci.c

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Fri May 21 06:40:46 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:21:41AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Well, the 8.3.3 paragraph only specifically mentions the command
> register and the BARs.  I'm just worried that by touching stuff outside
> of this range that you open up the risk of tickling latent buggy
> silicon.  Exception cases like the ATA hardware doing magic things with
> the progif register should be left up to the ATA driver.  It's exactly
> those kinds of bent-rules that makes me nervous =-)

Maybe this behaviour could be enabled or disabled with an instance variable?
I can think of one example of hardware which might need this. I owned an
IBM ThinkPad T22 with an xl(4) NIC for about a year, and one of the things
which annoyed me about suspend/resume was the tendency for it to lose its
PCI configuration.

Regards,
BMS


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