On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:35 pm Alan Cox wrote: > > One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from > > traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space > > in PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy > > PCI config space. > > Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the > config space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your > favourite movie company and video card vendor...
I hate "trusted" platform garbage as much as the next guy (where "trusted" means the actual user can't trust it, just the seller), but I think there are legitimate uses of extended space as well, PCIe AER uses it iirc, so don't dismiss it on those grounds. :) Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/