Video drivers only enable the ROM long enough to get some values out it and then disable it. You don't want to leave ROMs enabled because there is some hardware that uses the same address decoder for ROM and RAM and you can't use them both at the same time.
--- Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [ Jeff: is that PCI ROM enable _really_ that complicated? Ouch. Or is > > there some helper function I missed? ] > > > The mechanics aren't complicated, but I seem to recall there being a > Real Good Reason why you want to leave it disabled 99% of the time. No, > I don't recall that reason :( But my fuzzy memory seems to think that > "enable, grab a slice o 'rom, disable" was viable. > > Jeff > > > ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
