Jon Elson wrote: > Chris Radek wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:35:27AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: >> >>> OHHHhhhh. HIGHLY dangerous. It writes 0x80 to the I/O port >>> 0x402 above that address you specify. If you don't specify >>> anything, it probably defaults to zero, so it writes to I/O port >> >> This write should be added to the driver. If it needs to be optional, >> it should be a load-time parameter for the driver so the user can >> change it in the hal file. >>
Note the second part of Chris's statement: "it should be a load time parameter for the driver". I agree that writing to any address by DEFAULT can be dangerous and is stupid. But having a load time parameter such as: loadrt ppmc dangerous_pci_setup_hack=1 is a perfectly valid way to solve the problem, and makes far more sense than distributing and maintaining a complete separate program to do the same dangerous thing. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
