aic7xxx driver and bios initialization

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>> So how do I get it to not ignore it?  My computer doesn't execute the bios a
>t startup, which is OK since I'm not booting off of it.  I would assume that I
> wouldn't have to worry about the bios, right?  I'm on a PPC and I just want t
>o use a nice fast software raid5 for my root file system and boot off some lit
>tle disk that the MacOS will fire up the linux kernel off of...
>
>The problem isn't that the driver is detecting that the BIOS wasn't run, the
>driver is detecting that the cards IRQ or I/O space allocations haven't been
>performed.  Without those allocations being made, the card can't be used
>(trying to attach to either IRQ 0 or trying to map I/O space at address 0 are
>both fatal errors for the driver, so things won't work if it did go past this
>point).

Do you fail if the BARs are not enabled?  I ran into that when I tested
against a Mac G3.  It seems the "system bios" does allocate the BARs, but
leaves the BARs disabled until some driver comes along to turn them on.  I
now fail only if all BARs are set to zero.

--
Justin

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