John Kasunich wrote: > 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". > OOps, I DID miss that! Yes, now it makes some sense to do this. I will try to put this in in the next couple days. > 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 What the heck should we call it? Some people have chafed at the name "pcisetup". Any suggestions? I'm thinking, maybe, something like "force_EPP". How does that sound as the parameter name?
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