From: "Divy Le Ray" <divy@chelsio.com>
To: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
swise@opengridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30] cxgb3: clear shadow BAR registers
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:48:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.urpyfmweduofyu@cayman.asicdesigners.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090331.203457.210552824.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:34:57 -0700, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
wrote:
> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:58:54 -0700
>
>> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
>>
>> Ensure that internal shadow BAR registers are cleared on 32-bit
>> platforms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
>
> Why is this a problem and why is it not possible to rely
> on these being setup to zero by either the BIOS or the PCI
> layer?
>
> At best this is a PCI quirk and not something that belongs
> in the driver.
>
> I'm not applying this.
Hi Dave,
You are right, this issue is motherboard specific and seems to have been
fixed a loong time ago.
Sorry for the spam.
Cheers,
Divy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 0:58 [PATCH 2.6.30] cxgb3: clear shadow BAR registers Divy Le Ray
2009-04-01 3:34 ` David Miller
2009-04-01 17:48 ` Divy Le Ray [this message]
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