Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

Jon Smirl
2004-07-30T19:42:02Z

I looked at PCI quirks, they all seem to be fixing chipset issues. Do
we want to start including adapter specific quirks along with the more
general chipset one?

--- Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:25:10PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > --- Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> > > How about this patch?
> >
> > Here's the ROM access code I've been using but it's not in the form
> > that we need.
> >
> > We do need a standard scheme for the radeon situation of having a
> bug
> > in the ROM access logic. Is it ok to put the fix for this in the
> radeon
> > driver? So if you read the ROM before the driver is loaded it won't
> be
> > there (proabably FFFF's). After the driver loads the fix will run
> as
> > part of the driver init and the ROM access functions will work
> right.
>
> IMO the fix should go to the PCI quirk logic. That's a place to work
> around PCI config bugs.
>
> --
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
>

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com

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