From: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:35:11 -0400
> As far as I can tell no one has built recent hardware this way. But I > believe there are some old SCSI controllers that do this. I provided a > ROM API for disabling sysfs access, if we identify one of these cards > we should just add a call to it's driver to disable ROM access instead > of bothering with the copy. Currently the copy is not being used > anywhere in the kernel. Qlogic ISP is one such card, but there are several others. I think enabling the ROM is a very bad idea, since we in fact know it disables the I/O and MEM space decoders on a non-empty set of PCI cards. - 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/
