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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:30:45 +0100
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Retrace
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

>The BAR values in PCI config space may be the same, but the BAR values in
>struct pci_dev can be made different by the machine-specific fixup code.

This would work as long as no one reads the BAR directly. I know no-one
should do it, but I've seen some time ago (can't remember where) some
drivers reading BARs directly. Also, I don't know for the X server.


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