On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:29, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > It is weird that fuctory bios can still use them.
>
> There's gotta be a hack in fuctory bios, I would guess, something like:
> if (the pci card is a vga && there is an option rom)
> callit();
>
> i.e. I betcha that fuctory bioses will call an option rom on vga even if
> it violates the spec.
>
> I wonder if we really want to do this, the S3 cards are antiques anyway.
>
> ron
>
YhLu,
Why did you remove the class code check ?
if (dev->class != ((rom_data->class_hi << 8) | rom_data->class_lo)) {
printk_err("Class Code mismatch ROM %08x, dev %08x\n",
(rom_data->class_hi << 8) | rom_data->class_lo,
dev->class);
// return NULL;
}
Ollie
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