On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:23 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070611 17:17]: > > My dream is to have a chip specific driver (map driver in MTD terms) > > which knows the window size the BIOS hardware decoder supports, > > including the optional enable bits. > > One kernel driver per supported chipset? Ouch. That does not make things > easy at all.
Well flashrom has numerous per-chipset and per-motherboard drivers for the write-enable, the quantity of those would remain the same for an in-kernel driver. The benefit would be that the drivers would tell the kernel (/proc/iomem /proc/ioports) what is going on. Consider also that there are per-chipset drivers in Linux for EDAC that flash rom functions could be merged into. There is always the option of the generic 4G - 16MB window for not-yet-written drivers. > > > Stefan > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
