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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: jonsmirl@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Standard driver call to enable/disable PCI ROM
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:17:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819141735.52ffedc7.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030819215246.H23670@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:52:46 +0100
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

>                 new |= res->flags & PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
>                 reg = dev->rom_base_reg;

A word of caution, please do not enable PCI ROMs lightly.

There are many devices which stop responding to MEM and IO
space once their ROM is enabled, Qlogic-ISP chips are one
such device and there are several others.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-19 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19 19:45 Standard driver call to enable/disable PCI ROM Jon Smirl
2003-08-19 20:06 ` Russell King
2003-08-19 20:46   ` Jon Smirl
2003-08-19 20:52     ` Russell King
2003-08-19 21:17       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-19 21:32         ` Russell King
2003-08-19 21:54           ` Jon Smirl
2003-08-20  0:05         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-20  0:02           ` David S. Miller

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